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Item Reconstruction of Black Experiences in Richard Wright'sBlack Boy(Department of English, 2007) Manandhar, SurajRichard Wright'sBlack Boystands as a novel unfolding the racial issues in the American society. This work basically focuses on the deplorable condition of the oppressed African Americans and their consequent resistance against the white domination. The long-standing history of racial discrimination hasmade Richard the victim of oppression and humiliation and this ultimately leads his life to tumultuous uncertainty and hatred. Realizing that his life is a deep sense of disordered human identity, he finds his dignity and self forces him to develop rebellious and aggressive attitudes towards the rigid social values and norms. With this rebellion, he sets out to reconstruct his experiences in the white dominated society.Item Subversion of Normalcy in Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child(Department of English, 2009) Parajuli, BasudevDorisLessing'sThe Fifth Childtries to reveal the conventions of social norms and values that are human constructions so they can be built and rebuilt in society. Every society has fixed social discourses which are guided by power. Power paves the way to truth, truth changes when power changes. Power is at the centre and builds different norms and values; they are neither true nor false in themselves. If anything happens out of social discourse, there might be upheaval in society. Society creates certain identities while she/he is living. These certain identities are ruled by power and truth. Society begins its power after birth over his/her existence. As a result, we see that ugly, deaf or abnormal children are put out from the society. They think that abnormal children have no lives and are burden of societies. So, our duty is to liberate and secure their lives. Abnormal children arenot themselves faulty because we are made to think so. We are afraid of normalcy. We should bind normal hands to abnormal hands and stay in single society. Our social spectacles should be changed and we should behave normally to these abnormal ones. Normalcy is each and every society should be subverted and it should be brought in the mainstream of contemporary society. Every person has right to live in his/her societies and he/ she is judged biologically not socially. Social truths are always dangerous forhuman existence.