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Item Critique of Global Capitalism in Don DeLillo'sCosmopolis(2021) Chaudhary, Khusi RamThis research explore show and why Don DeLillo has critiqued globalization or global capitalism in his novel Cosmopolis.This research contends that DeLillo's insular representation of a cosmopolitan America is the result of his fear towards others who enter in America through the process of globalization, and cause the events like 9/11. And, for DeLillo,the very process brings about clashes, gaps, and cracks in the American society as a whole and accordingly end angersthe solidity of American culture.By taking the oretical insights on globalization proposed by Marshall McLuhan, Arjun Appadurai, Timothy BrennanandShaobo Xie, this research unfolds that DeLillo takes neoliberal globalization as a threat for the solidity of American culture and evinces his anxiety towards global capitalism which creates binaries like master versus wage-slave, present versus absent, masculinity versus feminity,us versus them, civilized versus uncivilized, and so on. Keywords:globalization,global capitalism,the other,hegemony, subversion, homogenizationItem Reflection of Western Ideology in the Textsof Western Literature and Mass Media: An Althusserian Notion(Department of English, 2007) Kafle, SanjeebThis dissertation is about the operation and reflection of western ideological hegemony in the texts of western literature and western mass media. Thisresearch presents the argumentthat literature reflects western ideology of supremacy over the east by inferiorizing the latterand its people. And, this hegemonic tendency, later on, isevencarried and sustained by the mass media of the west. The research selects a wide range of textsfrom thecanonical to pop cultural.The canonical literary texts have limited audience. Colonialand colonialist textHeart of Darknessand colonial autobiographical textShooting an Elephanthavingselected readershipreflectthe western ideological hegemonic tendency, but they do not have lesser impacts,and have reflected and shaped occidental mindsets. Pop cultural communications, on the other hand, have unlimited audience which too have hegemonized East from economic domains to epistemological ramifications.Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,two months editorial of theTimemagazine,BBC Have Your Say2000 program topic,Associated Pressare taken as the pop cultural communication texts that have unlimited audience. The study uses wide ranges of tools like ideology, hegemony, power, discourse,Orientalismto support the central ideas of the thesis.Item A Study of Hegemony in Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa(Department of English, 2009) Dhakal, Yam PrasadHemingway'sGreen Hills of Africarepresents Africa as the place of domination. African people are under thedomination throughconsent-hegemony. To explore the African diversities Hemingway uses his hunting memory of being in Africa. The way of representing Africa by employing hunting, keeping friendly relation with native people, isthe issue to convey a sense of hegemony. In Africa, in his hunting project, Hemingway indicates that Africa is the proper place for hunting to hegemonize it. While dealing with African people,itsgeography he invents certain issue of domination to conceptualize everything of Africa in easy manner. To give the sense of domination, Hemingway uses the words i.e. savage, uncivilized, bloody, hell, son of bitch, lier and so on to enhance hismotifwith hegemony. This representative desire of representing Africais the appetite of unquenchable hegemony by Hemingway himself.