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Item Articulation of Vicarious Trauma in Louise Erdrich'sThe Round House(Department of English, 2020) Jaishi, Gauri LalThis research paper attempt to explore thearticulation of vicarious trauma in Louise Erdrich'sThe Round Houseby applying the protagonist himself, his father, his friends and most of the people from the community. In order to show how indirect victim of trauma can became victimizers, who in turn became traumatized by the violence they commit and witness. Louise Erdrich,is selecting the life like story of GaraldineCoutt, a Native American woman, in order to show her pain and suffering that triggers the mind of her son which ultimately results empathetic unsettlement. It tells the readers how Erdrich identifies Joe with Garaldine and articulates that suffering through imagination. Moreever, through this fictional text, this research analyzes the figure of the protagonist from the perspective of vicarious trauma and brings secondary people's traumatic situation at the center. To complete the task, the researcher takes the theoretical insights primarily from literary based on trauma theory text such as Dominick LaCapra'sWriting History, Writing Trauma, and Laurie Anne Pearlman et al's. Treating Traumatic Bereavement. By using these theoretical tools, the researcher finds how Joe himself being secondary victim in the situation of Garaldine and come up with her tragic traumatic situation. The secondary traumatic experience of Joe helps remake the situation of Garaldine from her pain and suffering and give relief from vegetative stage. Hence, projecting the situation of emphatic unsettlement of the protagonist, this research paper attempts to expand the reactions of Joe after knowing about the tragic situation of Garaldine.Item Gender Trauma in Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night(Department of English, 2019) Rana, ManjuThis research paper analyses gender trauma on Fitzgerald’s novel Tender Is the Night. Taking the ideas from Kali Tal, Judith Herman, CarthyCurth, UrvashiBhutalia and Kamala Bhasin’s notion of gender trauma the research analyses the mental illness of women and traumatic experience of women because of men’s unnatural behavior. In Tender is the Night, the female characters are traumatized by the men’s atrocities and increasing loneliness in domestic lives. Nicole is raped by her own father in her tender age and becomes a victims of sexual violence. The patriarchy is defined as a hypocritical nature of male atrocities and gender discrimination. Primarily, it focuses on the male atrocities which gives lots of torture to women. Women are traumatized from male atrocities and wild nature. Throughout the novel, Nicole represents the traumatic experience of women. Gender trauma is the consequences of male violence upon female and bearing sexual violence, suppression, oppression, domination and exploitation within their domestic sphere as well as public sphere in the society. The supreme ideology of male rules over the men trend society and constrained patriarchal norms and values. Gender trauma explicit when women remain in isolation, depression, rage, anxiety, and hyper alertness. The most crucial aspect is that they are from historically subordinated and on the side, they have no way out to reach their individual freedom. Under this kind of men’s suppression and oppression, the reaction of women character is outburst beyond the limit of male atrocities and gender discrimination. The intention of narrator is to reduce the trauma and resistance against male attitude. Women are living insecure life, as they are not safe by men’s immoral behavior even their own father and brother. Women are in danger because of male atrocities in the text. The injustice towards women: such as rape, abduction and domestic violence should be discouraged. So that women remains free from such traumatic condition.Item Socio-economic determinants of street children (A case study in Kathmandu metropolitan city)(Department of Sociology, 2016) Chaudhary, Phiroj KumarNot availableItem Survival and Change in Alice Walker's The Color Purple(Department of English, 2012) Shrestha, BishalThis thesis seeks to study the identity crisis of female characters mainly Celie and Nettie. Awakening of the identity comes from the domination of male characters. This novel shows that in the patriarchal society marriage is one of the complexities which sometimes minimize the effect of a self-identity of female.The Color Purple presents the situation in which female characters search their identity but are beaten down and kept aside by the patriarchal society. It is the society and its tyrannical behavior that made the female identity submerged, subordinated. The novel presents a women’s search for identity. Celie, the woman protagonist of the novel, a poor southern black woman who is victimized physically and emotionally by male characters and through her consistent effort female identity is regained ultimately. The novel depicts a black woman Celie struggling for spiritual and physical survival. Celie begins her life as a physically and psychologically oppressed young girl who is unknown about herself. Amale character like Alphonso rapes her and threatens her not to tell about it to anybody. This paternal threat completely silences Celie. He uses every means to silence her. Later on she becomes the wife of Mr.__ another male figure in her life, who alsocontinues to exploit her in different ways. There too she becomes the victim of sexual violence. For Celie the sex with Mr.__ is like rape. Though completely silenced by patriarchal authority, she manages to tell about her dehumanizing situation by writing and finds hope in act of writing. She takes writing as a means to define herself against patriarchy. The whole novel is presented in letter writing form; firstly by Celie to God and then to her sister Nettie and Nettie’s letter to Celie. Writing allows her to analyze herself. Later, when she knows that God is white man, she stops writing to God and starts writing to Nettie. Writing appears as a means which empower Celie and she realizes her 'self’. But she develops a sense of self in the company of other woman. The first woman she