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Item Representation of the Minority Voice in Aahuti’s Dalan(Department of English, 2015) Bhandari, Utsav ManiThis research is about Dalit in Aahuti’s Dalan. The televised serial portrays minority voices along with the national changing scenario. Dalan represents the minority condition since 1951 to 1996, that is from the end of Rana Regime to the time when Maoists in Nepal lifted up the arms to ensure the marginal voice. The tele-serial written by Biswabhakta Dulal aka Aahuti was produced by Jagaran Media Center in Kathmandu. Through the visual, Dalan not only projects the discriminatory position of Nepalese society but also provides future perspectives on how marginal voice should be addressed. As country shifts in its political paradigm with growing voice for minority; the serial Dalan also demands access to all Dalits in political spectrum that opens the door to representation in state mechanism. The tele-serial broadcasted by Nepal Television, the state owned television only after the Maoist who previously claimed to be pro-marginal emerged as state power. It was popularly watched by Dalits and non-Dalits. The research brings Facoult’s notion of power relationship through discourse. According to Facoult, discourse creates truth and the truth leads to power and the power ensures the representation. Similarly, Gramsci talks about hegemony. Here, Gramsci’s theory is relevant because the Dalits were under hegemonic condition as they were supposed to feel inferior and not able to foreground their voices on themselves during the time in Nepal. Hence, the research on Aahuti’s Dalan accounts the marginal and suppressed voice of Nepal, the Dalits in particular. This has not only helped marginal representation but also provided legal security through representation in state mechanism.Item Representation of the Sri Lankan Civil War in Sehan Karunatilaka's The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida(Department of English, 2023) Rai, YagindraThis thesis explores representation of Sri Lanka's civil war and the cultural conflicts of two groups, the Tamil and the Sinhalese in Karunatilaka's novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Maali Almeida as a representative from the Tamil community works as a human right activist, and later gets killed by the Sri Lanka government. Moreover, Sri Lankan Government’s brutality and its cruel behavior towards the Tamils community dominates, tortures, kills, and pulls to margin in the name of civil war. Michael Foucault's notion of Truth, Power, and Knowledge ventures the text from the perspective of criticizing the ideology made by Sri Lankan government as their ideology incorporates a false narrative to marginalize Tamils. Reading and analyzing the novel, Sri Lanka Government found to be expanding their language and right to resist by challenging war against the government; this is how the power creates knowledge as real to disseminate their own cultural value. Similarly, Paul Hamilton's theory of new historicism reveals the historicity of civil war and delineates the real representation. Sri Lankan Government dominates the Tamils from the history of civil war moment. In conclusion, the research find that Karunatilaka’s novel is a record of representation of Sri Lankan civil war an appeal for justice, existence, and the pursuit of freedom for the Tamils population in the Jaffna state, covering the message that hegemony is always resisted in one or the other way. Keywords: Culture, Political Atrocities, Resistance, Marginal Voice, ExistenceItem Resisting cultural Hegemony in Nadia Murad’s The Last Girl(Department of English, 2023) Poudel, AnilThis research paper explores the resistance against Islamic cultural hegemony in Nadia Murad’s semi-autobiographical novel The Last Girl (2017). Nadia, as a representative of the Yezidi community, delineates her traumatic experience of ISIS brutality and their cruel behavior toward her community in the name of religious transformation. Antonio Gramsci’s notion of cultural hegemony uncovers the text as the site of resistance for the Yazidi community against ISIS as the dominant group. Gramsci argues that the process of hegemony is led by the mainstream culture to shed light on its own cultural value upon the working class through their brutal acts. For this reason, the mainstream culture of Islam tries to flourish its own cultural branches with violence, killing, raping, and torturing. Moreover, Michael Foucault's notion of Truth, Power, and Knowledge ventures the text from the perspective of criticizing the false ideology made by ISIS as their ideology incorporates a false narrative to hegemonize Yezidis. Reading and analyzing biography, ISIS found to be expanding their religious propaganda to the Yezidi community as following the devil's path; this is how the power creates knowledge as real to disseminate their own cultural values. Similarly, Louis Althusser’s notion of the Ideological States Apparatus excavates the text as a site of rioting for the Yazidi community against state-level policymakers as well as ISIS militants. In conclusion, the research finds that Nadia’s biography is a record of resistance to cultural hegemony, an appeal for justice, existence and the pursuit of freedom for the Yezidi population in the Islamic state, conveying the message that hegemony is always resisted in one or the other way.