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Item Cultural Mobility and Identity Construction in BapsiSidhwa'sAn American Brat and Bharati Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters: A Diasporic Reading(Central Department of English, 2019) Aryal, Bed PrasadThis research explores various crosscurrents and undercurrents of western culture which creates adverse conditions for Indian and Pakistaniimmigrants in BapsiSidhwa'sAn American Brat and Bharati Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters.In both novels characters from Indian continent migrate to Unites States of America in search of better life, education and wealth. As times passes by, they go through cultural and psychological clashes. They feel they are inferior and below the human line. They do not get education, health facility and freedom. Natural rights and fundamental rights are mere dream for them. In the midst of prejudice and other anti-migrant hassles, they do not hesitate to adapt the shifting cultural locale as a strategy of survival. The characters of the novel; Feroza, Tara, Parvati and Padma adopt western way of education, culture and religion as a camouflage to resist western atrocities. However, they are sandwiched in-between in the midst of western culture. They create imaginative community as diaspora. With the application of diasporic concepts and notion propounded by Arjun Appadurai, Staurt Hall and Franco Jean, the research explores the new hybrid identity and cultural transformation of expatriates. Key Words are Diaspora, Mimicry, Hybridity, Adaptation, Survival, Inbetweenness.Item Human Resilience: A Coping Mechanism in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi(Central Departmental of English, 2019) Prajapati, RekhaThis research work tries to analyze and interpret the role of Pi’s continual psychological struggle between religion and reality for his survival by exercising his internal and external judgment of knowledge through experiences in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. This existing knowledge and his experiences throughout his journey help him in his personal growth and adaptive nature. Therefore, this study unravels the fact that resiliency is not a trait but rather a skill that is gained through continuous experiences and patience. Hence, the religious belief that results in resilience is a kind of coping mechanism process to overcome problem. Thus, the role of religious beliefs can help contribute to the knowledge and decision making practically. For the evidence, Pi faces many challenges in the world of nature after the shipwreck and develops a kind of internal strength that helps him to control himself as well as Richard Parker and by coping with the ferocious nature through resilience---trains the tiger, transforms from vegetarian to non-vegetarian, explores different strategies for his survival and deals his inner self. Pi’s determination and commitment to save his life that shows his resiliency skills through learned and improved practice of living the life in Pacific Ocean. Key Words:resilience, survival, companionship, power, knowing.Item Mimicry as a Politics of Survival in Erdrich’sThe Antelope Wife(Central Department of English, 2019) Bashyal, ChoklalNot 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