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Item Changing Social Reality in R. K. Narayan's The Dark RoomandThe Painter of Signs(Department of English, 2007) Panta, NarayanThis research makes an intensive study of R. K. Narayan's novelsThe Dark RoomandThe Painter of Signs,set intwo distinct eras [pre-independence and post- independence] of India.R. K. Narayan faces a peculiar problem of Westernization and Modernizationin these novels. The heroic struggle and self-sacrifice of the protagonist to overcome from the prevailing social structure in Indian society creates the vision of change fromPre-independenceto Post-independence Indiansociety. The principal characters in these novels embody the deep-rooted social awareness in the circle of Malgudi.These charactersexpresstheir love and hate to the respective realities in which they are living. Neverthless, the same Malgudi appears differently inThe Dark Roomand The Painter of Signs. In comparison toThe Dark Room, Narayan'sThe Painter of Signs expresseshis vision of changing social realities around him and maps an enchanting tale of progress oftheMalgudi, the fictional projection of India as a nation.Item Cleft Identities in Japin’s The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi(Department of English, 2011) Ojha, ArjunThis research concludes that the identities of the two Ashanti princes Kwasi Boachi and Kwame Poku have been lost due to intercultural mixing. African and European culture is incompatible so that to retrieve the cultural loss the princes cultivate into deep memory or nostalgia which is only the source of compensation of loss. Slowly and gradually the African princes start to mimic what the Hollanders do. As a result hybrid identity of the immigrant is formulated. On the other side due to long gap of connection to Kumasi, the princes have forgotten their Twi tone. This research establishes the formation of hybrid identity, nostalgia or memory and amnesia as the major causes to make the identities cleft. This research also concludes that European society or white superior mentality and racial prejudices are the causes to formulate the cleft identities of the princes.Item Fluctuation of Immigrants’ Life in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake(Faculty of English, 2013) Dangi, RosyJhumpa Lahiri’s novel,The Namesake,moves almost all about fluctuation of immigrants’ life during their lifetime in an alien land, America. Lahiri pours her diasporic feelings in the novel through different characters to dig out actual situation of fluctuation and its impact on immigrants in general. She shows how the life of immigrants is uncertain and full of ups and downs due to the effect of new culture and new environment.This novel also galvanizes the idea that trauma of culture can be a tool for bringing fluctuation in the living process of the immigrants in a new place. This novel has vividly shown that diaspora and Post-colonialism (shift in new culture) are the main cause of unsuccessful life of immigrants, and as a result, affects thelife of the characters: Ashima, Ashoke and Gogol Ganguli. Ashima is often palpitating and Gogol embroils in the turmoil of vague, uncertain and bogus life in the new land. Likewise,Sonu’s marriage is not a happy marriage as it was thought. Lahiri has proved that the shift in the new environment is the main cause of uncertain and undeveloped life of immigrants in America. The focus of Lahiri to write this novel The Name sake is to show the fluctuation of Ganguli family in particular and of Indian immigrants in general by bringing representative characters like Ashima, Ashoke and Gogol Ganguli.Item Representation of Yoruba Gender in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel(Department of English, 2023) Tiwari, SimrikaThe paper analyses an African drama entitled The Lion and the Jewel by African postcolonial dramatist and a playwright, Wole Soyinka, and argues that his representation of women characters disrobes his patriarchal position towards women as practiced in the cultural ethos of the pre-colonial Nigerian society. It further explores his failure of resistance towards colonial principles of the contemporary patriarchal culture of the Nigerian community. The researcher compares the characterization between male characters such as Baroka, Lakunle and female characters such as Sidi and Sadiku. While the male characters are portrayed as intelligent, powerful- both socially and intellectually, the female characters are presented as beings with low intelligence, high level of gullibility and powerless. Soyinka conforms to the patriarchal tradition of polygamy by stripping women of their potential power of resistance against the masculine exploitation of female characters like Sidi who gets raped by Baroka and finally subjects herself to the marriage with him. To further consolidate the argument, the researcher borrows the theoretical insights from the postcolonial feminism. Postcolonial feminists such as Gayatri Spivak, Sara Zargar and Antonia Navarro Tejero not only question the universalizing narrative of western feminism but also draw criticism upon some postcolonial male writers for their silence regarding the colonial nature of patriarchal attitude towards women. The researcher concludes with the findings that the postcolonial literature falls short in its representation of post-independent societies if it fails to inquire upon the ideology of gender construct. Key Words: Post-colonialism, Postcolonial Feminism, Gender Inequality, Patriarchy, TraditionItem Theme of Anti-essentialism in Tom Stoppard'sIndian Ink(Department of English, 2006) Guragain, Narayan PrasadThis present work is an analysis of Tom Stoppard'sIndian Inkthrough the perspective of anti-essential cultural identities. This work basically focuses on the representation of British and Indian characters inthe play and concentrates on the changing or shifting nature of their cultural identities in different time and contexts. Hence, the study analyses the changes in the articulation of these identities and relationships both in colonial and post-colonial periods.The observation of the development of these characters from the first scene to the last scene of the play gives the audience a vital significance that they cannot be defined in the particular features or qualities that we ascribe to a particular cultural identity. The present study, thus, attempts to argue that the playIndian Inkis based on the theme of anti-essentialism by putting question mark on the essentialist aspect of cultural identity of the characters presented in the play.