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Item A Colonialist Study in Park'sTravelsin the Interior Districts of Africa(Department of English, 2007) K.C., Binod KumarThe present research has tried to study colonialism in Park'sTravels inthe Interior Districts of Africa. The African Association sends Park to Africa to explore the interior parts of continent for its profitable uses. The book is an account of park's expedition to Africa to support European mission to find out the navigational commerce in the region. Through the book, Park proposes civilizing mission that when British intervention proceeds they bring civilization to the barbarian, enlightenment to the heathen, prosperity to the impoverished, law and social order to the brutish primitive. It is the Justification of British's self-appointed mission of spreading "civilization", commerce", and "Christianity" across the globe. To achieve this goal, Park applies mostly anti-conquest and reciprocity as the means that leads him to his mission—exploration of the West Africa and the new channel of commerce. In most cases, Park remains passive, sometimes helpless persona, and for long, he is entirely reliant on charity—who can accuse him of exploiting or harming anyone? It is the main strategy Park uses to establish his situation of anti-conquest— an innocent pursuit of knowledge. This seemingly innocent pursuit of knowledge gives the British or the colonizer power to exploit and colonize the nations or continent like Africa.Item The Imperial Walk: An Orientalist Reading of Jamaica Kincaid’sAmong Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya(Department of English, 2021) Rai, AmbikaAvailable with full textItem Interface between Colonialism and Capitalism in Chinua Achebe'sThings Fall Apart(Department of English, 2021) Rokaya, Sunil KumarThis thesis examines an interface between colonialism and capitalism in Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart. This interpretive study showsalink between colonialism and capitalism.In order to examine this connection between colonialism and capitalism,this study drives theoretical insights from NgugiWaThiongo,Jan AartScholte,Karl Marxand Timothy Mitchell. Thisresearch finds thatcolonialism wasanarmof capitalism andat thesame time colonialism wasan early formof globalcapitalism.Though, theBritish government extractedraw materials from differentcolonies for collecting capitals. Thecolonizers’intentionwasnot onlytorule butdestroy the native way of lifetoexpandtheircapitalist ventures.Item Intersection of Race, Patriarchy and Imperialism in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife(Central Departmental of English, 2019) Sapkota, HumnathThis thesis “Intersection of Race, Patriarchy and Imperialism in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife” is an study and interpretation of the novel from the perspective of feminism. In doing so, the thesis also touches upon how both imperialism and patriarchy are inimical to the freedom and expression of the female. Daughter accommodates to American values and life style as a revolt against patriarchy. In another words it comes as a revolt against the masculinist ideology of patriarchy represented by mother in particular and against Chinese patriarchy in general. In the novel, there are two parallel lines of story. One line of the story tells about the Japanese invasion of China, and the another line tells about how a Chinese woman is brutalized by her husband, a Chinese military person. The oppressor in both cases are the male ones, and the females are doubly oppressed. They are oppressed by the Chinese patriarchy at home, and also by the invading Japanese imperialism from outside. Thus the policy of imperialism and patriarchy are both unjust and inhuman institutions. Winne's revolt against her mother and cultural system she represented shows a women power which comes from the movements prepared by feminism in Europe and America.Item Jagan's Resistance to Western Influence in R K Narayan's the Sweet- Vendor(Central Department of English, 2006) Paudel, MadhavNot availableItem Joseph Conrad's Nostromo as a Parable of Colonial Exploitation(Faculty of English, 2019) Chhetri, Deb Bahadur PaudelThe objective of this thesis is to explore colonial exploitation in Joseph Conrd's Nostromo. The novel is the story of revolution in Latin American Republicans against the colonialist's exploitation on poor and native people. There are social, political, cultural and economic exploitation. The exploitation has risen to the unification among poor and to the revolution to get the equal excess to every field. The colonialists who colonized the country are controlling natural resources and the natives are being used as workers just for hand to mouth. The native poor people who are the real owner of the land have been sidelined with the use of power. It gives an acute sense of domination among the native poor people and that works as the fuel to their revolution to get back control over the natural resources. The novel is full of colonial exploitation. So, this thesis is an attempt to link that story with the postcolonial theory.Item Joseph Conrad'sLord Jim: A Contrapuntal Reading(Department of English, 2007) Sapkota, RamchandraThis dissertation reads Conrad’sLord Jimwith a simultaneous awareness of Conrad’s metropolitan history and concealed history of the colonized. It argues that Conrad highlights their disjunctions and discrepancies in the colonizer-colonized relationship. Conrad’s characters in the novel are not mere products of his racist imaginings of a disturbed and ultra-reactionary imperialist. They are the consequences of the imperialist sensibility that Conrad inherits in the white colonial milieu with a pinch of salt. At a certain level, he has an ambivalent attitude to colonialism: he justifies and criticizes it at the same time. But he posits positive image of white characters and negative image of the natives. This reading is particularly indebted to Jim, the white protagonist, whose presence is, Conrad feels, indispensable to regulate a chaotic world torn by internal strife. Jim is required to rescue it from its own pettiness despite the resistance of the natives. Thus Conrad involves in imperialist complicity. This reading offers a synthetic view by balancing aesthetic as well as historical value of the text.Item Readers' Perceptionon Mixing Code: A Caseof Novel Muglan(Faculty of Education, 2014) Subedi, Krishna PrasadThepresent study entitled "Readers' perception on mixing code: A case ofnovel Muglan" aimedto find out the readers' perception on why thecodes are mixed up and to identify the mixed codes either assimilated orunassimilated in Nepali language in the novel Muglan. In order to carryout this study, twentyNepali literary figureswho had already gonethrough the novelas well as the author of the novel Muglan were sampledpurposively.The main tool of the research was a set of questionnaires.which consisted of both open-ended and closed ended items. Theresponses of the informants were collected and the data were analyzed tofind out their perceptions on those mixed codes of the novel. The majorfindings of the study were that in most of the pages the author has mixedcodes and the readers perceived them as the common trend of presentliterary writing. What they perceived is that most of the mixed codes areloan words which cannot be avoided and some others have contextualreality as the novel is based on foreign affair. The study is divided into five main chapters. Chapter one deals withintroduction. It consists of general background, statement of the problem,rationale of the study, objectives of the study, research questions,significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operationaldefinitions of the key terms. The second chapter is about the review ofrelated literature. It consists of the review of empirical literature,implications of the review for the study, review of theoretical literatureand conceptual framework. The third chapter includes methods andprocures of the study. It consists of the design of the study, populationand sample, sampling procedures, tools of data collection, data collectionprocedure and the data analysis and interpretation procedures. Chapterfour incorporates the results and discussion of the collected data. This 9 chapterincludes two parts: the former deals with the results drawn fromthe analysis of data and the later deals with the discussion of those resultsin detail. The final chapter presents the summary, conclusions andimplication of the study at different levels of application. The study endswith the list of references and appendixItem Resistance against Colonial Domination in Kamala Markandaya’s Some Inner Fury(Department of English, 2012) Baral, Eka RajKamala Markandaya’s Some Inner Fury presents the sense of postcolonial identity as the strongest tool for resistance against colonialism. The sense of anti-colonial resistance enabled the Indian people to act for the liberation from imperial oppression. She shows that the backdrops of colonial legacies motivate Indian people to liberate their nation from the colonial grip and create the independent identity and national autonomy. Markandaya’s passion and love for her homeland is clearly presented through her regard to the national culture, custom, religion and value system. She tries to unite all the Indians to build free India. Markandaya tries to prove resistance as the strong means that all the people of nation should join the hands together against the colonization. By presenting different characters’ rebellious psyche against imperialism, the novelist reveals their longing for freedom of nation. This rebellious psyche works as the strong weapon to wipe out the colonial rule and its inheritance among the natives.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 Colonial Discourse in (J)ohn (M)axwell Coetzee's Foe(Department of English, 2009-03) Paudel, Chandra ManiJ. M. Coetzee's Foe is a radical revision of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. It subverts allegorical and canonical Robinson myth from postcolonial perspective. Defoe's eighteenth century novel was built upon the false ideologies imposed by the western colonizers. It valorizes the European values such as the eighteenth century Enlightenment rationality, individuality, capitalism, patriarchy and so on. The novel disregards the significant aspects of the females as well as the colonized subjects. It is because Defoe writes Robinson Crusoe from the perspective of the white colonizer, an Englishman. In order to counter colonialist discourse, Coetzee writes his novel from the perspective of the marginalized and colonized (in terms of biological and geographical colonization). Because of Defoe's indifference towards the pain and sufferings of the non-Whites, Coetzee deliberately represents him as foe--an enemy of the colonized. So, it is essential for him to subvert such European notions in his masterpiece,Foe. Coetzee's Foe gives adequate role to the females as well as the blacks such as Susan Barton and Friday. He makes his female narrator, Barton evaluate every incident of the story to give voice to the marginalized or colonized non-White Africans so that their pains and sufferings will be heard throughout the world.Item Textualization of Context: A New Historical Reading of Coetzee’sdusklands(Department of English, 2009) Rai, Mani RamWith reference to the theoretical tools ofNew Historicism, this thesisaims to understand J.M. Coetzee’sDusklandsas a novel of relations. From the reader’s initial difficulty in trying to reconcile the seemingly divergent constitutive narratives to its exploration of the failed relationships between subject and object, Self and Other, and the corporeality of the body and the incorporeality of the mind,Dusklandsdemands that thereaders pay close attention to the sets of associations and connections that it establishes. And it is in this context that thisthesisargues thatDusklandspresents the narratives of two men who begin to experience the failure of such fundamental relationship as they begin to uncontrollably oscillate between the ontological states of the known-subject and the incomprehensible-Other. Under such conditions, an analysis of the relationship between the body and the “event” of pain that circulates upon it reveals that this complex state of affairs is highly detrimental to the integrity of the philosophical principles of the Enlightenment that underscored the structural imperatives of European colonial discourse. Indeed, it seems certain that without the guarantee of a conceptual Other with which to construct world reality, the claim to “truth” maintained by scientific rationality begins to stutter. With a gaze ofTheNew Historical approach, one can straightforwardly unearth in the text thathistoryis unveiledhere, and the mainline history is exposed to be mere propaganda in the service of the colonial power in the past and nuclear superpowers at present.