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Item Cases of Penance in Hariharan’s The Thousand Faces of Night(Central Department of English, 2007) Khatiwada, NavindraThis paper studies Githa Hariharan’s picture of contemporary Indian women at social and physical level for their quest of familial stability and certainty of reconciliation in the novel The Thousand Faces of Night. The analysis establishes submission and surrender of fictional characters—Devi, Sita, Mayamama, outlining the areas of penance in the novel as it results in a multiple response ranging from self-inflicted suffering to protest, revenge and violence. Having passed through mythical and historical positions of women of The Ramayana, The Mahabharata, The Purana, as a historical survey, penance is studied in Hariharan’s novel. Finally, this work shows difference between contemporary and mythical world of women in Indian setting.Item Critique of Western Feminism: A Study of Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World(Faculty of English, 2012) Aryal, MadhavIn The Holder of the World, Bharati Mukherjee presents the general predicaments of Indian women under British colonial patriarchal India through the firsthand experience of her western female protagonist Hannah Easton. Since the colonized women suffer double marginalization: political and gender, the patriarchal social norms and colonial politics that undermine women are presented as the major causes of double marginality of women in India. Mukherjee critiques western brand of monolithic and reductive notion of feminism which homogenized all women of the globe regardless of their cultural, political, and locationalaspects. Likewise, British colonialism that dominates both men and women in India and suppresses their rights is explored as the major cause of domination and exploitation of Indian women. For the liberation from colonial and cultural domination of Indian women, male-female solidarity is called in the fiction. For this solidarity, men should respect women’s freedom rights and provide them with equal opportunity welcoming all sorts of positive changes in the dominating patriarchal norms. Mukherjee implies that through the solidarity of both men and women only women should realize their potential and empower themselves for the development of strong and peaceful society. Therefore, solidarity and reconciliation between males and females is essential unlike male-female antagonism in western feminism.Item Representation of Violence and Resistance to Patriarchy in The Fire and the Rain: A Feminist Study(Department of English, 2010) Khattri, LaxmiArt in general is a representation and reflection of life and people who one can and may meet in life. In this sense art and literature for that matter,are representation of life. Dramatic art in particular is much more representational in that it not only narrates or suggests what and how people act and behave but it actually embodies and enacts their modes and pattern of actions. So a play is already a representation of one or other kind of reality. The issue of representation becomes a contested field when it relates to representation of one group of humanity by another group. A sizeable bulk of literature is composed by the male writers for the male readers or consumer, with a male bias and predilection. In this case, representation of women in a play already suffers the possibility of misrepresentation. The same is true of the representation of female in Girish Karnad’s play The Fire and the Rain, based on an episode in the Hindu scripture. But that representation is not necessarily the personal projection of the playwright. Rather, in basing his play on the mythical episode, the modern writer has held the patriarchal treatment of women up to ridicule and has questioned the rationality, humanity and authenticity of such imposition of patriarchal values upon women. Thus, though the playwright is male, and he wrote the play for a patriarchal audience, he has criticized the male domination on women.