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Item Body Politics in Mahesh Bikram Shah’s Selected Stories(Department of English, 2018) Lamsal, KeshavThis thesis entitled “Body Politics in Mahesh Bikram Shah’s Selected Stories” examines the representation of both male and female bodies, prevalent domination of women’s bodies and their protest against it in the male centered society. The female characters like Eliginia, Jacqueline, Mambal’s wife, Nepali girl living in United States, and Derli’s bodily experience represent the domination and violence of patriarchy on the one hand, and how they get power through their own body on the other. When the male characters try to pursue their interest, they start playing with their counterpart’s body for achieving their goal, so do the female characters. The passivity of conscious women characters excavates the domination of patriarchy but they still resist against the violence. They do not feel secure even with their beloveds. Though the characters try to resist it by leaving their boyfriends or partners but their body still remains a site of fear, panic, violence and insecurity. Women’s bodies continue to become a site of domination because of their weaker social or economical positions. Key Words: racism, superiority, body politics, subjugationItem Envisioning agents in contemporary Tharu novels: An assessment of self and structure(Department of English, 2021) Paudel, DhaneshwarAs the contemporary Tharu novels present, Tharus in Nepal have experienced both success and failure in their attempts to overcome the barriers structurally imposed on them. The formation of agency has taken a very difficult path in their society. The present study explains the exploitation of landlord to bonded laborers, creation of agency and the activities of them in Chhabilal Kopila’s Churiniyan and Krishnaraj Sharbahari’s Lal Kerani. In the backdrop of the Kamaiya system, this study reads the novels as the documents imagining the tension between the self and the society in quest of change at both levels: personal and structural. For one thing, Kopila creates agency and the agency challenges landlord’s exploitation through meetings, dharna, and street demonstration. However, the agency collapses in the end, thereby presenting the failure. On the other hand, Sharbahari imagines Tharus winning their freedom, rescuing themselves from the structural discrimination. This study has read the two novels through the critical design that Michel Foucualt has developed for the critical concept of body politics. Finally, the Tharu novels hold the story of success and failure of people while making the agents in their society. The imagination helps understand the nature of interaction between the self and and the social structure in Tharu society in Nepal.Item Subjugation of Individual As Subjects In Toni Morrison's Jazz(Department of English, 2021-04) Shahi, MahadevToni Morrison's novel Jazz advocates the voice of Afro-American voiceless in a capitalist ideological mechanism that subordinates the role of black American. Capitalist institutions like press, politics, and racism interiorize the agency of black American in the novel. Particularly Afro-Americans characters are placed in dominant position to resist capitalist ideological mindset. Amidst the adverse environment, Violet, the protagonist and most of the time speaker in the novel stand against the conformist bourgeois society by revolting in their own norms and values. Despite the inseparable hardships, she tries to maintain herself personally and socially but remains as it is. How capitalist American society has been trapping to those voiceless black American this is the issue unfolded in this research. Such a pathetic condition of her and suffering of others like her, it is all about the reason of capitalist ideology. The novelist appeals to advocate protest against the subjugation of voiceless people caused by capitalist ideology through her voiceless African American characters and bold representation of them in the novel Jazz.Item Subjugation of Women in Buck'sThe Good Earth(Department of English, 2021) Acharya, RewatiThe research analyzesPearl S. Buck'sThe Good Earthand finds that the status of the women in the then Chinese society is miserable.The main objective of this study is show how is O-lan, themain character of the novel, subjugated in her life. The study is based on the close reading of the text and analyzes the situation of O-lan by using references of novel and highlights her subjugated life.Basic concept of feminism and patriarchymentioned by ThomasKeith, is used as theoretical tool for this study,however, the ideasof Plato andAristotlehave beenalso used as reference to show how patriarchal socio-economic system plays role to subjugate a woman inaparticular construct. Conclusion of the study is based on the hypothesis that is proved through textual analysis. On the basis of textual analysis, it is found that O-lanhas beencompelled tobelieve certain concept about gender roles like that women are for the pleasure and assistance of men; their role is complementary part of men and they should fulfill their natural feminine functions. Due tothesereasons, foralongtimeshe iscomplledtoacceptthe patriarchalnormspracticedby Wang Lungin thenovel but that could not go ahead and she resists such so calledsocial norms. As time passes, she searchesforher identityin life and realizesherselfas the worthymembers of thefamily as well as society. Finally,she resistsWangLung andvalue of Chinse society and liberates her from subjugated pastlife aswellas domination of WangLungas well as patriarchal domination ofmaledominated Chineseculture