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Item Racial Trauma and Self-Healing in Jefferson’s Negroland A Memoir(Faculty of Art in English, 2018-02) Rai, PurnimaThis dissertation explores Margo Jefferson’s politics of memory about the encountering experience of bias that resulting trauma to author. The double rejection leads Jefferson to suicidal moves and difficulties to her clan, the neo-aristocrat African- American. Jefferson’s Negroland A Memoir unfolds the mainstream American society’s discrimination to the Non-white elite African- American more on the ground of the skin color than economy and position. This memoir is righteous confession of Jefferson’s hindrance between dilemmas of sophisticated aristocrat which is taken as deleterious in eyes of Negroes who lacks the sufficiency and always biased by American whites in term of color, race and an origin. Author has adopted in this memoir to heal her racial wound through or used theoretical frameworks are, Politics of Memory of humiliation, rejection, and racial discrimination which have endorsed psychic trauma to her. It is her cleverness to imprint those traumas into words or proposed by Suzzate A. Henke “Scriptotherapy” with Lacapra’s “Working Through” to eradicate sad memories and continuously self-healing for re-organizing, reenacting, re-living and co-opting into the society with normal life.Item A Recovered Self in Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl(Central Department of English, 2017-12) Bhattarai, Gita MayaThe present thesis entitled “A Recovered Self in Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano and Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” explores the process of changing the mental and physical sufferings of the slave narrators, Equiano and Jacobs. They transform their miseries into strength through autobiographies and contribute to the slavery abolition movement respectively; in Europe and America. Both of the narrators were slaves and sold to different white masters in their early age. They continuously struggle against the system and extricate themselves which reveal the atrocities of slavery system to the world in these two texts. They become the representatives of all those who were bound by the slavery system. Their autobiographies help them to construct a new identity as a writer and as an abolitionist. Here, the researcher believes that they have been able to transform their weaknesses into strength with the help of writing.Their ways of being transformed will be exposed in this paper. To support this claim, the researcher uses ideas and perspectives related to autobiography, slave narrative, scriptotherapy and anti-slavery movement. Thus, in these autobiographies, Equiano and Jacobs explore their miserable condition of slave life and their escape from it. Both of them take the help of writing to recall the past memories and show the miserable conditions of black slaves.Item A Recovered Self in Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl(Faculty Arts in English, 2017-12) Bhattarai, Gita MayaThe present thesis entitled “A Recovered Self in Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano and Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” explores the process of changing the mental and physical sufferings of the slave narrators, Equiano and Jacobs. They transform their miseries into strength through autobiographies and contribute to the slavery abolition movement respectively; in Europe and America. Both of the narrators were slaves and sold to different white masters in their early age. They continuously struggle against the system and extricate themselves which reveal the atrocities of slavery system to the world in these two texts. They become the representatives of all those who were bound by the slavery system. Their autobiographies help them to construct a new identity as a writer and as an abolitionist. Here, the researcher believes that they have been able to transform their weaknesses into strength with the help of writing.Their ways of being transformed will be exposed in this paper. To support this claim, the researcher uses ideas and perspectives related to autobiography, slave narrative, scriptotherapy and anti-slavery movement. Thus, in these autobiographies, Equiano and Jacobs explore their miserable condition of slave life and their escape from it. Both of them take the help of writing to recall the past memories and show the miserable conditions of black slaves.