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Item Defying Appropriation of Racial Discourse in Steve McQueen's Twelve Years a Slave(Department of English, 2019) Tiwari, SunitaThe major thrust of this study is to probe how White Americans used the idea of racial differences of Blacks as a means to oppress and enslave them in the film Twelve Years a Slave. When racial inferiority pertaining to Blacks got stabilized and normalized, even Blacks accepted their inferior plight giving Whites a chance to enslave them. The notion of Black people's intrnalized racial inferiority was exploited as a springboard to promote slavery. Repeatedly Blacks were told to believe that they are inferior and it would be better if they simply accept White people as their masters. The more discourses on Blacks' innate inferiority circulated, the more easily they accepted their inferior and marginalized lot. As this discursive practice got normalized giving rise to institutionalized forms of slavery, it became quite easier for Whites to sell Blacks as though they are sellable commodities. To probe this issue, the theoretical idea of Althusser's notion of ideological state apparatus is used to probe the issue at hand. Additionally, Foucault's idea of how self is cultivated following an individual's exposure to discursive, systematic and societal practice constitutes the methodological basis of this study.Item Kathryn Stockett's The Help as a Histographic Metafiction(Department of English, 2019) Khadka, SanuThis research blurring the distraction between fact and fiction as depicted in Kathryn Stockett's historical novel The Help. The novel describe the event of the Civil Rights Movement, the laws of segregation and intimidation and Taking theoretical insights on Historiographic Metafiction as proposed by Linda Hutcheon, and Hyden white this study reveals how this novel critique blurs the distinction between fact and fiction and presents the critique of racial stereotyping present in American society. A new rule has been set under the Civil Rights Movement according to this every citizen irrespective of class; creed or color will have access to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness through individual effort. This research concludes that The Help not only presents the history by narrating the story through the old maid but also analyses the history through the present day situation and the text revisits history by revising and questioning it.Item Mental Enslavement In Edward P.Jone's The Known World(Department of English, 2018-04) Pariyar, DhrubaThis thesis examines unique subject matter of black slave owning practice raised in Edward P. Jones’sThe Known World.It explores inspiriting factors for the black in slave holding business. Throughout the history of slavery in America, the black sufferedfrom white masters. But in the antebellum South, the time before Civil War, a few of them found practicing two types of slavery: benevolent slavery and commercial slavery. A slave turning to be master stands as contradictory aspects of blacks. White’s cultural influence over blacks and black’s mimicry of white culture inspires them to practice commercial slavery. Being the black they behave like white. The blacks interring to slavery business connotes the idea that slavery is not only a racial problem rather a Social problem. Black’s involvement in slavery tells that slavery is not only a matter of skin but also mentality.Item Narrativization of Solomon Northup’s Journey from Bondage to Freedom inTwelve Years a Slave(Department of English, 2017) Koirala, SanjayaThis research explores the conventions of slave narrative with the trope of Solomon Northup’s journey of from bondage to freedom within the context of Slavery in the Antebellum American South in Twelve Years a Slave. Drawing upon the theories of slave narratives, especially William Andrew, the research primarily focuses on analyzing how the effects of slavery are narrativized following the then-popular conventions of brutalities in writing personal narratives, mostly by the freed slaves as a way of voicing against the brutal institution of slavery. This paper begins with the examination of narrative conventions like starting from information of the narrator’s birth and examines number of conventions that follow in Northup’s narrative could be justified as a slave narrative.Item Slavery and Romantic Imagination in The History of Mary Prince and The Interesting Narrative of The Life of Olaudh Equiano(Central Department of English, 2015) Acharya, JagadishThis research is the study of two slave narratives by different writers from the perspective of romanticism. In the slave narratives, The History of Mary Prince, and The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudh Equiano, the pervading romantic notion of individual freedom appears to be the sole and whole cause of the rise of abolitionist movement. In the popular romantic discourses, the orientation towards individual freedom and critique of social as well as institutional restriction are emphasized. The romanticists’ vision of individual freedom and social reform pave the way for the abolition of slavery, servitude and bondage of social restriction. In The History of Mary Prince, the narrator is steadily aware of the value and significance of liberty even in the condition of extreme misery. Right from her childhood, when she sees other people struggling for freedom from slavery, she grows acutely aware of liberty. The torture and punishment which she receives from her different slave holders implant in her a firm sense of freedom from slavery. She tries her level best to earn her freedom but none of her slaver holder allows her to buy her freedom. Her contact with various free women who go to church takes her from the bondage of slavery to the sunshine of freedom. It is in the church that she meets several free citizens who educate her about her value and necessity of freedom. After marrying a free black man she becomes hopeful that one day she will ultimately get freedom. When Prince surveys nature, and various creatures enjoying freedom, she asks herself why she cannot enjoy freedom like other creatures. The same is the condition of Equiano. Equiano moves from one place to the other in the course of following whosoever master buys him. He sees many black slaves buying their freedom with the money they saved by working overtime in the plantations of other workers. Equiano gets plenty of money through trade and commerce with which he gets freedom from the clutch of slavery.