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Item Representation of Subaltern in Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees(Department of English, 2017) Pandey, BasantaThis research explores the issues of subaltern in The Secret Life of Bees using the ideas of Gayatri Chakrovarty Spivak, David Luden, Antiono Gramsci and Dipesh Chakrovarty about subaltern have been used. The characters Zach Taylor, Rosaleen, August, June, May, April, etc. are the negroes. The female character Lily has been made subaltern due to the relative domination which proves the notion of subaltern. Lily is victimized physically and mentally by her father T. Ray Owens and through her consistent effort female identity and individuality is regained. She fights for the gender inequality and cross the limitations created by male in the society. At first she leaves her father who always oppressed her and lives with female company. Lily represents the ideology of female and tries to redraw the boundary of patriarchy which existed in Subaltern. The females and blacks have been made subalterns due to the relative domination by ruling class.Item Subversion of Patriarchy in Angela Carter’s Night at the Circus(Department of English, 2012) Thakur, Aamod KumarThis study analyzes Angela Carter’s novel Night at the Circus from the perspective of feminism. Female characters of the novel like Fevvers, Lizzie, Madame Schreck and Christian Rosencreutz resist patriarchy by revolting against socio- economic, cultural and political discourses and try to establish liberty and equality for women. Carter allegorically presents prison which was broken by females at midnight that refers to the male dominated society which subverts by females with female right movement. By using various narrative events she induces the urgency of subversion of patriarchy and her characters finally ready to subvert the patriarchy by breaking the prison.