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Item Dislocated Identities in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2016) Acharya, ShreejanaJhumpa Lahiri, portrays the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, hybridity, diaspora, isolaton, alienation, the tangled ties between generations in her novel The Lowland. Her primary characters are Indian immigrants in America. The novel captures the true emotions and feelings of immigrants. The Lowland takes the Mittal family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. The novel, through characters like Gauri, Bela, Subhash, Udayan attempts to portray the sufferings of the immigrants in the modern societies. All the characters struggle with their cultural identity and the forces of the modernization while trying to maintain their emotional connection to one another.Item Raising Voice through Cybernetics in Mukherjee's Miss New India(2015-12) Bhattarai, ToplalThis research explores the issue of how Bharati Mukherjee's Miss New Indiaexplores woman's empowerment. Mukherjee draws her theme from the Hindu society of India which stands for the patriarchal ethos of Anjali Bose, the major character of the novel. She engages herself in cybernetic space so as to get rid of patriarchal compulsion of marriage. There she encounters a teacher, Mr. Champion who has been living in Indian society but by origin he is from USA. Mr. Champion teaches her about her potential capability to challenge the so-called patriarchy. He, time and again, encourages her so as to make her bold and reject the patriarchal chains laden upon her. Accordingly, she flies from Gauripur to Bangalore and works in the call centers. There she makes use of technological instruments like computer, Internet, mobile phones, etc. At the same time, she becomes aware of her class, ethnicity and gender. So, she becomes aware of her identity, subjectivity, self and existence. Her act of rejecting the marriage proposal for several times proves that she wants to establish her own identity and does not want to remain under somebody's grip. The incorporation of technology makes it possible for her to identify her potential qualities and reject the old hypothetical and patriarchal norms. Her journey is no other than the world of ignorance to the world of consciousness and identity.Item Recovering the Subject: Valmiki's Joothan as the Chronicle of Dalit Life(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2012-08) Gaudel, UpendraThis research examines Omprakash Valmiki's Joothan as a tale of domination, subordination and hegemony imposed upon the lower caste and class in Indian society. The Hindi word Joothan literally means food left on plate, usually destined for the garbage pail in a middle class urban home. However, such food would be characterized as Joothan only if someone else were to eat it. The word carries the connotation of ritual purity and pollution, because Joothan means polluted. In Joothan, Omprakash Valmiki deals with the issue of humiliation meted out of the Dalits by Indian society, no matter where they lived. This humiliation stems from the fact that Dalit inferiority has gotton embedded in the psyche of the upper caste, the members of which have developed on extraordinary repertoire of idioms, symbols and gestures of verbal and physical lenigration of the Dalit over centuries. It is embedded in the literary and artistic imagination and sensibility of the upper caste. Joothan stridently asks for the promissory note, joining a chorus of Dalit voice that are demanding their rightful place under the sun. A manifesto for revolutionary transformation of society and human consciousness, Joothan confronts it's readers with difficult questions about their own humanity and invites them to join the universal project of human liberation.Item A Study of Narayan's Use of Irony in R.K. Narayan's Talkative Man(Department of English, 2008) Khatri, Mahendra KumarThis research is an attempt to show irony on Narayan's Talkative Man in which he ironizes the world the characters are living. The narrator, talkative man wants to further his fledging journalistic career by using a fraud, Rangan from the southern part of India. In doing so, he becomes an accomplice as he cooperates in promoting illegal activities Rangan is involved in Rangan, who calls himself Dr. Rann pretends that he is conducting a research on the UN project, but ironically his own activities and dealings land him in his deserted wife's trap. Later, he turns out to be a terrible womanizer and cheat. The novel ironically exposes the tragic state of the protagonist and thus, irony turns out to be a means of a rhetorical weapon to foreground the basic concept of it so as to reveal the unexpected result.