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Item Fluid identity in Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father(Department of English, 2016) Subedi, SamikshaNot AvailableItem Location-Behaviour Nexus in McCarthy's The Road(Central Department of English, 2019) Daulyal, TejendraThis researchanalyzesthe contributing factor for the identity of a father and a son inThe Roadby Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy presents two unnamed central characters in the post- apocalyptic world. The problem lies in the mystery of presenting these unknown characters in such a world. The intriguing aspect of this post-apocalyptic world is theremnantsof a city. In such a setting, the two characters have been presented in different ways. These two characters have dissimilar attitudes to whomever they encounter on the way. The father seems inhumane, selfish, rationale, indifferent, reserve and materialist. The boy seems humane, helpful, emotional, careful and openhearted. Thesebehavioursand attitudes are symptomatic to what Raymond Williams and Georg Simmel point out regarding the people of a country and a city.For Raymond Williams city is the palaceof ambition, money, artificiality and material. This all aspects of the city make people reserve, materialistic and inhumane thereby people forget feeling towards human and humanity. However, a country is a place of the natural world and has a natural wayof life, working economy, innocence. In the same way, George Simmel argues because of a money economy in the metropolitan city people are so much busy that they do not have any time to think of other thereby they become indifferent to the human feeling and emotion. However, in a town or a country, most of the people are known to each other and have a positive feeling and warm relations. In the text, the man is from the city and does have overall experiences of the same place, whereas the boy is the beginner of the country life and he has not been affected by any old experience, celebrates humanity.McCarthy suggests the global community that excessive practice of city culture leadsa humancivilization to thecrisisand the road to urbanization has become a threat to the entire civilization. Key Words Blasé attitude, city, country, identity, indifference, location, money, working economyItem Representation of Trauma in Shamsie's In the City by the Sea(Department of English, 2016) Chapagain, Bimal PrasadNot AvailableItem Resistance for Self-formationin Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the CagedBirdSings(Central Department of English, 2019) Saru, MainaTaking the idea from Bildungsroman genre, this research work analyzes Angelou’s coming of age and her self-consciousness from innocence to adolescence. InI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou details her journey into adulthood and struggles to develop her personality and dignity in African American society. Her past experiences are the sources of education which teach her about morality and also learns to adjust in the new community. Threat given by Mr. Freeman to kill Bailey indicates that she has done something wrong and the experiences in the junkyard shows her intellectual growth, sense of confidence and independence. By looking childhood experiences, Maya also tries to raise the voice of marginalized people in the white dominated racist and sexist America society. Despite lots of difficulties, she is able to establish herself as a streetcar conductor in San Francisco. At the beginning of the text she is innocent and immature child but at the end she is able to construct herself as independence and self-dignified woman. So, every scene of the novel illustrates blossoming awareness of Angelou with significant self-formation. Key words: bildungsroman, discrimination, morality, maturation, identity