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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 Interrogating the Official Syrian History in Hisham and Crabapple’sBrothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War(Central Department of English, 2020) Roka, Ambar BahadurThis research project analyzes how Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple’s Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian Warcounters the official Syrian history.The memoir captures the Syrian war providing marginal issues and revealing thealternative truth in contrastto the official history. For this purpose, the text isinterpreted through new historicist perspective thereby referencing fromHistoriographic Metafiction of Linda Huthceon, Metahistory of Hayden White,Genealogy and History of Michael Foucault, and New Historicisms of LouisMontrose. One of the crucial findings of this research is that it challenges the officialhistory since it provides Syrian regime’s cruelty, suffering of the marginalized people,massacre of common people by the government. Therefore,the memoir problematizesthe official historical representation of the Syrian war because the official historydeliberately excludes facts, suffering and displacement of common people, internalscene of the war, flaws of the government and marginalized issues. Key Words: memoir, Syrian war, historiographic metafiction, genealogy,representation