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Item Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty as Slave Narrative(2014) Dhakal, Awatareshwar KumarBlack Beauty (1877) is an autobiography from the point of view of an ostensible horse. Though Anna Sewell herself said that her work was for improving the treatment of horses, the novel has many similarities to the slave narratives. The living conditions and standards of the characters of Black Beauty are similar to that of the slaves. The relationship between animal autobiography and the slave narrative has only recently been recognized. Critics like Moria Ferguson and Tess Cosslett have sketched several commonalities between the animal autobiography and the slave narrative. This research investigates that relationship further. In short, this research confirms Black Beauty's rhetorical, formal, thematic, and social power within the genre of the American slave narrative.Item Celebration of Feminine Self in Elizabeth Gilbert’sEat, Pray, Love(Central Department of English, 2019) Banjade, YamunaThe memoir,Eat, Pray, Love : One Woman’s Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia shows the ups and downs faced by the author, Elizabeth Gilbert. The autobiographical memoir is a travelogue in which the author herself travels to different countries and finds the sense of self. This memoir is based on the experiences that the writer feels during her travel. She uses different cultures and people to drawreaders’ attention on how she transforms herself from depressed, unhappy and unhealthy woman full of sadness to a happy woman with cherished face, healthy mind and self identity. The people, culture, people’s lifestyle, food, the system, the language havebeen the main subjects that help the writer change herself from what she was. This memoir helps the writer to celebrate to be proud of being a woman with sense of feminine self by discovering the actual meanings of life. It shows how a writer leaves herluxurious life style and decides to go on a journey where she finds the real pleasure of nourishment of eating in Italy, the pleasure of inner spirituality of praying in India and the pleasure of being loved in Indonesia. Her visit to these various countries helps her to celebrate her feminine self. This autobiographical memoir shows how a woman transforms herself through writing. Like other feminists, such as Helene Cixous, Elizabeth Gilbert finds her identity in her writing. As she goes on writing about the things she observes, situations she faces, about the people she meets, she also discovers herself. Keywords: Feminine self; memoir; autobiography; feminism; individualistic self; communitarian self.Item Constructive Role of Confession in Yousafzai'sI Am Malala(Central Department of English, 2019) Panta, PratikshyaThe thrust of this thesis is how confessional mode turns out to be a style of choice that paves the way for the liberation of a troubled, tortured and tormented self in Yousafzai's I Am Malala. Mobilizing the notion of autobiography as a dynamic representation of self in transition as well as confinement, the study is done by carefuly examining and analyzing relevant details and textual evidences. It explores its own past through the reconstruction of mental images preserved in the memory. It furthermore explores the writer’s own memoir from the first person narrative point of view. Psychic restlessness, intense inner agony and the burden of guilt put pressure on the narrator to follow on the track of confession. The constructive role of confession is probed by using the autobiography theories of Linda Anderson, Siddionie Smith and Julie Watson. The narrator is compelled to raise voice against the ban on the rights of girls to education. The suppression of the voices of women in Islamic society is one of the most callous practices the narrator hates a lot. She vociferously asks for the extension of the right of girls to education. For the cultivation of civilized society within the Islamic zone, it is necessary to allow women to have say in overall sectors. For daring to cross the limits and boundary set by patriarchy, the narrator is shot in her head and luckily she is saved.Item Techniques and Gaps in Translation of Cultural Terms: A Case of The Autobiography Binod Chaudhary(Faculty of Education Engish, 2017) K.C., BinamThe research work entitled Techniques and Gaps in Translation of Cultural Terms: A Case of the Autobiography Binod Chaudhary is an attempt to deal with the techniques and gaps in translation of cultural terms used in the autobiography Binod Chaudhary. The main objectives of the study were to identify the Nepali cultural terms used in the autobiography Binod Chaudhary and their equivalents in English translation and to find out the techniques employed in the translation of Nepali cultural terms into English version and point out the gaps in translation process. The study was carried out by adopting the survey research design. The data were collected from the secondary sources only. Observation was the major tool for data collection. Hundred cultural terms were selected from the autobiography and the context of the respective terms was provided. The cultural terms were selected by adopting purposive non-random sampling strategy. The major finding of the study was that there was a use of six different techniques to translate the selected cultural terms. They are literal translation, transference, substitution, addition/elaboration, deletion and sense translation. Among them, literal translation was the mostly used technique i.e. 39% and sense translation was the least used technique i.e. 6% of the total frequency. Similarly, many of the gaps were caused by the transference technique of translation i.e. 40%. This study consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with background of the study, statements of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second chapter deals with the review of theoretical and empirical literature, conceptual framework of the study and an overview of the autobiography Binod Chaudhary. Likewise, the third chapter deals with the methodology adopted for the study in which, design and method of the study, population, sample and sampling strategy of the study, research x tools, sources of data, data collection procedures and data analysis and interpretation procedures of the study and ethical considerations are discussed. The fourth chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of the collected data descriptively and using simple statistical tool i.e. percentage. Similarly, the fifth chapter deals with the findings based on the analysis and interpretation of the data, conclusion derived from the findings and recommendations. This chapter is followed by reference and appendices.