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Item Achebe’s Political Philosophy in Arrow of God(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2016) Khanal, SantoshArrow of God by Chinua Achebe is a political and cultural novel which dramatizes how political power was exercised and colonial rule was legitimized through different strategies during 1920s Nigeria in particular and Africa in general. It highlights the way British people build the infrastructure needed to continue their so- called self imposed project of civilizing and modernizing Nigerian people saving them from the state of barbarism because Europeans take Africans as the antithesis of civilization. Moreover, it accumulates the saga of pains and sufferings, troubles and tribulations, plight and predicament of African people under British rule as well as afterwards. Through this novel, Achebe elucidates his political philosophy that power corrupts people and literature has close nexus with society and can be used as a means of social change. Like his other works, Arrow of God also epitomizes the consequences of colonialism and imperialism in Africa and its growing dependency on Europe and European people for everything thereby bellowing universal appeal to change the course of action in time.Item Critique of Capitalism in J.G. Ballard’s High Rise: A Neo-Marxist Perspective(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2015-12) Karki, KeshavThe research entitled “Critique of Capitalism in J.G. Ballard’s High Rise” examines the contradiction inherited in capitalism due to which capitalist modes of production inevitably goes in division. To prevent the inevitable division it manages hegemony and spreads ideology via state mechanisms. Due to the contradiction within the capitalist system and its antagonism with its opponent results into the inevitable fall of capitalistic system. Occupants try to claim elevators and hold them for their own. Death of the designer of the High Rise building, Anthony Royal, at the last of the novel denotes the fall of capitalistic system. Ultimately, High-Rise is an unsettling, provocative and profound novel. It’s a glimpse into the uncomfortably dark heart of humanity, but one that offers hope – that our ability to reason can fashion a rational society out of the chaos we create for ourselves.Item Critique of Existing Multiculturalism in Naipaul‟s Half a Life(Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu, 2016) Thapa, Bhadra BahadurThis present research delvesinto the issues of existing multiculturalism in V.S.Naipaul’s Half a Life. Naipaul shows the multicultural theme by using different ethnic diversity, cultural assimilation and liberalism in his book. Thus this research examines his novel from the perspective of multicultural views on the basis of glocolization in the age of globalization. Naipaul‟s protagonist, Willie, is the representative character represented in different places with single multicultural identity.Willie is set firstly in post-independent India, at the politically protected court of Maharaja, later in London then in pre-independent Africa in a nameless country modeled on Mozambique and briefly, Berlin. By taking the theme of cultural contract, the mixture of ethnic uniqueness and affiliation to different religious way in his fiction generally illustrates to a strong pattern of multinational canvas in his novels. Drawing upon the notion of W.C. Watson‟s Multiculturalism, this research paper explores the multicultural theme in novel and proves the hypothesis.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.