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Item Critique of Psychic Colonization in Naipaul's A Bend in the River(Department of English, 2017) Bhattarai, DurgaThis research work investigates the concept of colonialism and its psychological effect on formerly colonized African people in V.S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River. The study examines the suffering of those people and their struggles to maintain identity and self-image in this modern world which is free from colonial rule. In this period every society of the world are changing. It is very difficult for the people to adjust and save own identity and culture which is really their original. Each and every society of the world is dominated by rich and prosperous culture such as European and American. People especially from poor community/country are confused either to adopt or reject those dominating culture. The topic was chosen as relevance of today's world where every third world countries are trying to raise up from Eurocentric approach but not being success in this process. The research examines how formerly colonized people are suffering from European domination and how they could compete with modern world to get complete freedom without losing own identity and culture.Item Identity Crisis in Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You(Department of English, 2023) Chand, ShrijanaThis paper undergoes complication of individual identity of the protagonist Lydia in the novel Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng’s. The divided family background creates confusion and dilemmatic situation further to define personal choice of subject. Lydia, the female character, grows up in culturally divided family. During the period of adolescence, she hangs up between personal desire and society but she cannot communicate her complicated situation with family members. This indecisive position cannot consolidate her to have unified cultural identity. The refection of dragon lady's image of the western society is experienced and Lydia has to be victim of the existing image and she struggles against it to establish her identity. Erik Erikson shows complicated contradiction between self and society in adolescent period which leads them towards negativity and frustration. Lydia undergoes contradiction between herself and society but she cannot communicate about it with society. This situation arises question of identity and then it causes mental suffering. Unfortunately, she is unable to communicate it to lessen her pressure and stress. This is how she is unable to find solution besides death. Because of racial, gender and psychological conflict with society, Lydia cannot establish her identity which causes her to death. Key Words: Adolescent, Identity Formation, Identity Crisis, Psychosocial Development, AlienationItem Identity Crisis in The Inheritance of Loss(Department of Management, 2008) Kattel, JagannathThe present research work analyses the crisis of identity of Jemubhai, Sai, Biju and Gyan, as the research question. All of them struggle with their identity and fail to maintain a foothold within the encroaching Westernization. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives Jemubhai who wants only to retire in peace, when his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. Biju is hop scotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another. An Indian-Nepali insurgency in the mountains interrupts Sai's blossoming romance with Gyan. It causes their lives to descend into chaos, forcing them to consider their colliding interests. And the present research contests their quest for identity in postcolonial India.Item Identity Crisis in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin(Department of English, 2017) Adhikari, Bimal PrasadThe novel, Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov, is about the identity crisis of the central character. He searches for his original culture in the adopted country but he cannot feel at home there. Pnin feels alienation, frustration, depression, loneliness and dislocation in the alien country after migrating to the USA. He has diasporic feeling because of the new culture, language and people in foreign country. He feels difficulties there because of diversity in culture and language. He teaches Russian literature in English language in Waindell College, an American College. The story begins with difficulties he faces in train while going to give lecture. While teaching he remembers his childhood and language so sometimes he uses his own native language there too. Vladimir Nabokov through the central character shows the bitter experience of emigrant people in alien country. This feeling of protagonist shows as the diasporic feeling. Thus, diasporic studies is the methodological tool for this thesis that questions the very notion of bitter feeling in alien country.Item Identity Crisis of Migrant Workers in Monica Ali’s In the Kitchen(Department of English, 2015) Bhattarai, Rup NarayanMonica Ali's In the Kitchen expresses the working class’s position through identifying the exploitation and ways of striking them. Ali attempts in presentation of the different community occupying a large land in England. The author seems to have dealt with the communal issues especially the immigrants’ economic condition and their overall lifestyle. In course of coping with this issue, Ali has been too much biased and unfair. Despite not having adequate information about immigrant, she pretends to have known a lot which is pretty clear in the novel In the Kitchen. Yure, the central character, her mouthpiece has been portrayed in such a way that she has always revolted against the Immigrant culture and lifestyle. It discloses the innermost motive of the writer that she herself is too preoccupied with the concept that the Immigrant culture and people of its followers are orthodox and rigid which is in fact partially true. Thus, the novel in its entire is the misrepresentation of the Immigrants. Monica Ali's In the Kitchen expresses the working class’s position through identifying the exploitation and ways of striking them. Ali attempts in presentation of the different community occupying a large land in England. The author seems to have dealt with the communal issues especially the immigrants’ economic condition and their overall lifestyle. In course of coping with this issue, Ali has been too much biased and unfair. Despite not having adequate information about immigrant, she pretends to have known a lot which is pretty clear in the novel In the Kitchen. Yure, the central character, her mouthpiece has been portrayed in such a way that she has always revolted against the Immigrant culture and lifestyle. It discloses the innermost motive of the writer that she herself is too preoccupied with the concept that the Immigrant culture and people of its followers are orthodox and rigid which is in fact partially true. Thus, the novel in its entire is the misrepresentation of the Immigrants.Item Immigrants’ Sense of Dislocation and Identity Crisis in Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko(Central Departmental of English, 2019) Mali, Dev SinghThis research aims to illustrate the Immigrant’s sense of dislocation and identity crisis in Min Jin Lee's Pachinko. This project explores the hardship and suffering of Korean immigrants to settle in new cultural environment. This research is done under the theoretical light of Salman Rushdie’s notion of sense of belongingness and past memory, Straut Halls’ concept of cultural identity, Homi K Bhabha’s notion of mimicry, ambivalence and hybridity, and Ashcroft, Griffith and Tiffin’s idea of hybridity. In the novel, Sunja feels alienated and dislocated when she finds that others have neglected her authentic identity. When Japanese people dominate Koreans considering the latter as savage, the Koreans go through alienation and identity crisis. Sunja suffers just because she is not Japanese. It is something like ignoring second person’s existence. Another major character Noa faces identity crisis in terms of class, culture, ethnicity, and prejudices. He shows civilized behavior and acquires the life of Japanese people but when Japanese people treat him as other he loses his sense of identity and commits suicide. Thus, the Korean's sense of identity is questioned, problematized, and troubled in Japan. Keywords: Diaspora, Dislocation, Discrimination, Hybridity, Identity crisisItem Mimicry as the Survival Motive in Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke(Department of English, 2021) Sharma, MadhusudanAvailable with full textItem Protagonist’s Failure to be Identified as a Radical Feminist in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian(Department of English, 2021) Rai, UshaGenerally, this research is based on to show identity crisis of a female in patriarchal society and their revolt against it in Han Kang’s popular novel The Vegetarian. This thesis argues how mostly female of today’s generation subjugated by patriarchal norms and values through characters; Yeong-hye and In-hye. The patriarchal norms and values restrict female from gaining their own identity however, this generation is ready to fight back against unjust. While fighting against patriarchy few of the female in society go overboard sometimes and lost their quest in midway or end up in tragedy. This research also deals with the characters of above mentioned fate. Yeong-hye and In-hye are two sisters who fight against patriarchal ethos and pathos. In-hye left her cheating husband by divorcing him. On the other hand, Yeong-hye claims her identity by turning into vegan. But if we happen to analyze their journey throughout the novel we can find both of them failed in their respective mission somehow.Item Sense of Alienation in V.S. Naipaul’s Half a Life(Department of English, 2023) Timsina, Krishna PrasadThis research work analyses the central character of Half a Life, Willie Somerset’s quest for the purpose in his life. Fragmentation, alienation, and exile are common features in postcolonial literature. In V(idyadhar) S(urajprasad) Naipaul’s Half a Life Willie Chandran is the representative character of those people who have experienced the bitterness of postcolonial reality of the immigration in the foreign land. He despairingly searches for his own stable identity but cannot find any fixed identity up to the end of the novel when he is already a forty plus aged man. He proves himself as an idler and cannot get a particular form. He feels bitterness in between his double identities. To study the sense of alienation and fragmentation of the main character, it is appropriate to use postcolonial theory which is the main supportive backbone. Post-colonialism expresses about the human consequences of external—foreign—control and economic exploitation of the native people and their land. In this novel Naipaul shows how Willie suffers from multiple external forces and tries to seek his own identity in real life but in vain. Colonization causes the flux of identity, alienation, and individual predicament, and decolonized individuals still suffer from the colonial attitude and demeaner of the colonizers as an outside force even in the time of postcolonialism which forms the hybrid identity of individuals.Item Subversion of the Biological Identity in Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s Secret Daughter(Department of English, 2018) Joshi, Tara KumariThis research explores the conflict between biological and cultural identities which entail the identity crisis of the main character Ashain Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s novel Secret Dughter, who lives in America with her mixed race foster parents. The Researcher examines the issue of identity conflict and identity crisis from the perspective of the theory of identity by Stuart Hall,Richard Jenkins and Adrian Holliday. Going through the issue of identity conflict, this research presents identity crisis and the feeling of incomplete and uncertain inthe life of an adoptive girl,Asha. When her biological identity does not match with the culturally constructed identity then she goes through the identity crisis.This thesis tries to show how Asha’s classmate streat her as‘other’in the classroom leads to her through the identity crisis.At the very starting, there comes a problematic situation in herlifedue to the conflict of biological identity and culturally constructed identity but with the change of time, she gets the ultimate solution of her problems when her culturally constructed identity wins over her biological identity. Key Words: Identity Crisis, Culture, Conflict,Biological, Adaptation, Love, Hate, Ambivalence, Hybridity, Discrimination, Gender