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Item Immigrants Writing about Immigrants: A Transnational Reading on Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine and Manjushree Thapa’s Seasons of Flight(Faculty of English, 2017) Gurung, DiluThis thesis is a comparative study made on Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine and Manjushree Thapa’s Seasons of Flight with the lens of transnationalism. It explores both the novels concerning the features of transnationalism. Both the authors, Mukherjee and Thapa, are transnational writers who write in diaspora. They include their transnational experience in their works. The novels thus are imbedded with hybrid characters, culture and identity. The protagonists Jasmine of Jasmine and Prema of Seasons of Flight, migrate to the West leaving their homeland to fulfill their dream. Their migration is the first step towards transnationality which results in displacement and transformation. This study observes the migrated female protagonists, their transformation, hardships, and effort to adjust in their place of settlement and create their identity. It finds that they create an alternative world by connecting the new place with their root, their place of origin. It also highlights the similarities and differences worthy enough to be noticed in these novels. On the whole, it shows how the alternative world is created in the novels.Item Representation of Gorkhas in Nepali Folk Songs(Department of English, 2019) Thapa, Karna BahadurThis thesis is about a mode of representation of Gorkhas in Nepali folk songs. The discursive constructionof images, stereotypes, and identities of Gorkhas in popular cultural discourses are examined in the light of Stuart Hall's theory of culture, popular culture and identity. In countries like Britain, India, Singapore and other lands where Gorkhas are hired as Lahure, they are still subjected to condescending conditions. They are deprived of getting equal pay and self-respect. Their dehumanization, exploitation and misery knew no bound. Subjection of Gorkhas to horrifying working conditions and their terrible debilitating conditions prove that they are exploited and oppressed beyond measure. Despite their repeated efforts and struggle to actualize their dream, they are doomed to suffer. Consquently, they individually and jointly resist against British and Nepalese government in a past and present too.Item Sutar as a Hegemonized Character in Govinda Raj Bhattarai's Muglan(Department of English, 2018) Acharya, OmnathThis thesis is a study of the working conditions of Nepali immigrants as reflected in Govinda Raj Bhattarai's, Muglan. There in Bhutan, their dehumanization, exploitation and misery knew no bound. Their working conditions and thwarted passions are doubtless heart-rending. When the base of the national economy of Nepal was still feudalistic, thousands of Nepali immigrants went to different regions of Bhutan and India for different purposes. Poverty, Superstition, threat of feudal lords and the hope of getting recruited in British Army pushed a large number of Nepali immigrants to different territories of Bhutan and West Bengal. Despite their repeated efforts and struggle to actualize their dream, they are doomed to suffer. They are so cheated and manipulated by the organized network of middlemen, agents and brokers that they had to beg money for survival. They are taken to Bhutan and forced to do a back breaking work. Some immigrants die of consumption whereas others managed to return to their homeland. Key Words: Immigrants, Subordination, Hegemony, Exploitation, Settlement, Brokers, Homeland, Recruitment, DehumanizationItem Transnationalism in Manjushree Thapa’s Seasons of Flight(Central Department of English, 2016) Bhele, ShreejanaThapa’s Seasons of Flight dramatizes national imagination beyond the geo-cultural boundary of a nation. At the heart of this novel is the projection of how the nationalistic feelings those Nepalese immigrants in the United States of America repeatedly experience. By showing Nepalese immigrants in the United States of America submerged in nationalistic sensibilities through different mediums, Thapa critiques the false consciousness of nationalism rigorously and monolithically defined by the state on the basis of geographical boundary. In the era of globalization, the sense of nationalism can transcend the territorial boundaries of the nation, thus bringing a vibrant transnationalism to the fore. The sense of nationalism is not always related to the sensibilities within national boundaries and the feeling of nationalism within national boundaries is monolithic and exclusive, hence false consciousness. In the novel,the female protagonist, Prema obtains broader and more multiple perspectives to examine her life. Her identity making will continually move in process. The life of Prema exists in the continuous boundary crossing and represents the self-identity through the way of multiplicity. Only through multiplicity and pluralityPremacan find her own dislocated life a whole new and vibrating. Finally, she attempts to recreate a new sense of place, and thus of self, through a profound acceptance of her own position as a permanent transnational subject. Transnationalism refers to increasing trans-border relations of individuals, groups, firms and to mobilizations beyond state boundaries. Transnational experience itself is very dynamic and distinct wherein people make attempt to find pleasure. And the very pleasure is possible through hybridity, mimicry, multiculturalism and of course with transnationalism. These all are the productive platforms that make Prema striving, aspiring and dynamic.