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Item Bridging Ideological Chasms: Rhetorical Criticism of Scientific Atheism and (Post) Modern Theology in the Works of Dawkins and Keller(Department of English, 2023) Bajagain, UmeshAvailable with full textItem Clash between Individual and Society in Toni Morrison’s Sula(Department of English, 2009) Subba, Sarjan KumarThis dissertation is anattempt to explore the implicit clash between an individual and a society in the text,Sula, in which society fails to position an individual in the existing order of society. Authored by a prominent Afro-American woman novelist, Toni Morrison,Sula(1973), is a reflection of the black community called the Bottom in which the individual clashes with society that is the sole objective of this task. Sula, the protagonist of the narrative, confronts with the contemporary social norms that they structure the individuals and their horizons into the social framework. The society squeezes the individual desires merely in the name of tradition and cultural logos. So, Sula radically revolts against all restrictions viz.social, cultural, moral, gender and racial. Although the rest characters are less revolutionary to interrogate the society, liberal minded Sula devalues and breaks all the pillars of society one after another. As an outcome, the rocketing angers and dissatisfactions result into the clash.Item The Life of Choice and Freedom: The Protagonist’s Existential living In Toni Morrison’s Sula(Department of English, 2018) Timilsina, Agni PrasadSula is a novel by Toni Morrison which portrays the effort of a young black female, Sula, to live the life of existential freedom with the choices and freedom of her own. The story of Sula focuses on how Sula, the central character, fights for her existential freedom, despite the hopelessness, suffering, alienation, social humiliation and hindrances she comes across as she grows up. This study has tried to explore the protagonist's view towards life, love, society, family, good and evil and many other things in the light of existential perspectives. In the initial chapter, this study has presented the introduction to the title, life of the writer Toni Morrison and the identification of existentialism in the novel using the reviews of literature. In the second chapter, this study has emphasized on the historical background of existentialism, its main contributors and theory itself. Similarly, in the third chapter, the study has analyzed the novel critically and analytically. In the final chapter, it has presented the legacy created by Sula on the basis of its textual analysis and presents the final view on it. It has also concluded the needs of existential freedom in life to live holistically.Item Obstruction of the Subaltern Voices in Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground(Department of English, 2009) Subedi, SurendraThe outstanding issue raised by Richard Wright in his novella The Man Who Lived Under grounddeals with the social and racial conflict. The tussle indeed creates a sort of marginalization on the part of the blacks deprived of the social and political rights. Social deprivation and racial exploitation on the part of the blacks pushes them to the situation where they have no space to create their identity and a way for liberation. The doubally marginalized people like Fred, the main character of the novella are victimized due the lack of their access to the power. As a result the voice of those subalterns is obstructed. Fred Daniels, the central character, who stands on the behalf of the entire black race, makes efforts to speak against the white hegemony and tribulations but his voice is not heard. Despite his innocence he is blamed that he has committed crime which is not substantial. Rather it is just the mark of the white domination and the predisposed mentality of the white race. Since the theory subaltern has a wide-ranging wing, it covers up all sorts of suppression and ill- treatments done to the blacks by the whites. Implicitly Wright’s attempt is tilted towards expressing the agonies of the marginalized subaltern groups of people by showing the contemporary plight of the blacks through portrayal of Fred Daniels who undergoes numerous hideous moments. That obstructs the victory of the vibrant subaltern character.