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Item Cultural Assimilation as a Survival Technique in Paulo Coelho’sThe Alchemist(Central Department of English, 2019) Raulya, Krishna BahadurThis research work explores the process of cultural assimilation employed by the protagonist, Santiago in Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist. The main objective of this study is to explore how Santiago has become able to survive in the foreign lands by exercising his cultural assimilation techniques. It inquires about how Santiago’s assimilation techniques work in the strange cultures in the strange places to make his desire of exploring the world as a traveler easier. Santiago’s process of cultural assimilation is analyzed with reference to Homi K. Bhabha’s theory of hybridity in the context of global culture, Milton Gordon’s sevenfold subprocesses of assimilation and Arjun Appadurai’s five dimensions of global cultural flows. It aims to unravel the techniques for a person to adjust successfully into the newer societies or cultures in the present era of globalization with reference to Santiago’s process of cultural assimilation. This study is a discovery of how Santiago deals with the difficult situations and obstacles he faces throughout his journey and how he succeeds to overcome them with applying his methods of assimilation in the unfamiliar cultural societies. It further explores how Paulo Coelho has portrayed the vivid picture of cultural assimilation in his book, The Alchemist. Keywords: assimilation, cultural flows, ethnoscapes, globalization, hybridity, manipulation,Item Diasporic Mediations in Eugenides’ Middlesex(Faculty of Art in English, 2018-04) Magar, Babu RamThe main objective of this research work is to explore the diasporic mediations in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex. Due to some assimilated traits and some non-assimilated traits, the Greek-American face problem of ambivalent identity in the novel Middlesex. Eugenides employs the hermaphrodite protagonist and many Greek mythical allusions along with the vivid description of many assimilated and non-assimilated traits in different generations of the Greek-American immigrants to show the hybrid identity of Greek-American Immigrants. In this multigenerational novel, the Greek-American immigrants neither can completely assimilate in the American culture nor can completely follow the Greek culture, and they suffer from identity ambivalence. Thus, the Greek-American writer Jeffrey Eugenides exposes the identity ambivalence of the Greek-American diasporas in his novel Middlesex. The researcher analyzes that hybridity of identity by using the diaspora and ethnic identity theory of Homi K. Bhabha, R. Radhakrishnan, Salman Rushdie, Robert Young, William Safran , Stuart Hall and so on