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Item Paradox in the Quest for Self-Identity in Virginia Woolf'sThe Waves(Department of English, 2009) Choudhari, Gauri ShankarWoolf throughThe Waveshas endeavored to expose the underlying reality, that is,the lack of identity of women and domination and bragging nature of males in almost all aspects of life deep-rooted in the male-dominated society. The female characters, Jinny, Susan and especially Rhodarepresentwomen in patriarchy and male characters Neville, Bernard and Louis carry on the male voice and attitudes.The Wavessymbolically denote the mental waves constructed in the cultural practices. In addition to all these, Woolf makes it crystal clear that life of women in patriarchy is troublesome since their self suffers a lot and eventually they get to the situation that they feel short of their individual identity as well whereas males proudly allege that they are commendable and their future is bright too. Such speculation is especially made by Neville. HenceTheWavesindeed portrays the conflicting interrelationship long extant between women and men. The reason for presentation of such social issues is the efforts made by Woolf to awaken the slumbering women in the domain of male chauvinism. Furthermore,the obligatory situations of womenseem to have been emphasizedin such a symbolic way even common readers feel conducive to assimilate with the fragile plight of females in patriarchy.Item Politico-cultural Consciousness in Mahasweta Devi's The Glory of Sri Sri Ganesh(Department of English, 2022) B.K., PradeepThis research explores the oppressive politico-cultural practices and consciousness of lower caste to oppose it in Mahasweta Devi's The Glory of Sri Sri Ganesh (2003). As a renowned Bengali writer for marginal, Devi often reflects oppression of the elite and resistance of the oppressed people. As this notion, Devi has portrayed a harsh reality of then Hindu feudal society in which lower caste and class people face extreme exploitation of upper caste landlords. Characters from lower caste like Lachhima, Rukmani, Haroa, Dusad and Bhangi are living in the miserable condition with little or no property in the oppressive Hindu society, the Barha village. Finally, they jointly struggle against domination of the potent and authoritarian Hindu feudal ruling system after they perceive their socio-economic condition and exploitation of the upper caste landlords, especially Ganesh Singh. For this idea, this research applies B.R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste and ideas of Educate, Agitate, and Organize. Overall, the idea related with the caste consciousness and resistance has been framed as the theoretical insights. Key Words: Exploitation, Politico-cultural, Consciousness, Caste, ResistanceItem Politics of Memory in Julian Barnes‘s The Sense of an Ending(Department of English, 2021) Dhungana, Hari PrasadThis research project explores Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending as a contextual document from the perspective of New Historicism. The narrator, Tony Webster narrates each and every event and related his memories and experiences in non-linear plot memoir. The self-reflexive narration by Tony is questioned by installing and subverting at the same time as which bears no objective presentations. For Tony, history is written by the survivors what they remember in the present. On this light, it is proved that Tony’s memory is imperfect and is not in chronological order. In this way, the choice of documentation is subjective and makes differences between the world of himself and reality which seeks the readers to read his each and every memories critically situated on the context of 1960s Britain. To read this text, new historicism has been used as a methodology, especially the concept of Louis Montrose and Michel Foucault as a tool, this research claims that Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending is a contextual document and an alternative history from the perspective of Tony that reflects the socio-economic and politico-cultural situation of Britain as well as the real scenarios of human relationship, marriage, separation, notion of family and friends after Post World War II, 1960s.