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Item Othering in J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians(Central Department of English, 2007) Wagle, Krishna BhaktaThis dissertation is a critical discussion of J.M Coetzee's novel Waiting for the Barbarians as an exposure of how the African People are misrepresented by the Westerners. The stereotypes constructed by West about East are the main focus of this study. Coetzee criticizes the picture of South African people who are fixed as the barbarians in their own land by the Colonel Joll and Mandel, the British officers. By imposing Western power and ideology, Colonel Joll always thinks that Africa is a land of barbarians where he wants to create peace, order and prosperity from the Western perspectives. In this way by imposing the colonial discourse and ideology the central characters like Joll and Mandel in the novel represent native people as barbarians and irrational.Item A Study of Blurred Demarcation between History and Fiction in Amitav Ghosh'sThe Glass Palace(Department of English, 2007) Thakur, Sanjay KumarInaugural postcolonial author, Amitav Ghosh, portrays the issue of colonial discourse and its immediate aftermath in the novelThe Glass Palaceby exposing the brutality of Anglo-white's regime in South East Asia; and also the impact these events had on lives of families and individuals as well. Ghosh depicts the tide of political and social chaos caused by the horror of colonialism on Burmese lives in the 1880s with the help of recalled memories and experiences that fabricate the history of the then Burma during late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through this novel which proves to be the history in an alternative version, challengingthe official version of national history that blurs the age-old contradistinctionary dispute between history and fiction.