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Item Crisis of Reconciliation Alvarez's In the Time of Butterflies(Department of English, 2017) Gharti, Tej BahadurThis research examines Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies from the perspective of historico-cultural trauma theory of Dominic LaCapra and Jeffery Alexander. For decades, the Mirabal sisters suffer from totalitarian regime of Trujillo. Forces loyal to Trujillo run the sisters off the road and murder three of the Mirabal sisters, Minerva, Maria, and Patria. The reason for their killings was their opposition to the regime and inciting others to try to overthrow the brutal dictator. Dede, the fourth sister, remains alive to tell their story to the world. Once reluctant to get involved, and for years feeling guilty about her sister's deaths, Dede eventually understands that her life still has purpose. Dede cannot work normally through her life because she is not free from the echo of murder of her sisters and the dreadful effects of the war. Her effort to work through her trauma by telling the story remains perpetual so she cannot get rid of it throughout the novel. Key Terms: Trauma, Perpetual, Resistance, Transmitted, concentration, Working Through Trauma, acting Through Trauma, Brutalities, violence, Deception etc.Item Effects of Heredity and Environment in Eugene O’Neill’s Beyond the Horizon(Department of English, 2007) Neupane, Narayan PrasadThis research makes a naturalist study of O Neill's playBeyond the Horizonwith reference to its exploitation of nature, symbol, setting and characters. It is a naturalist play where two major characters, Robert Mayo and Andrew Mayo are influenced by the effects of heredity and environment. The instinctual quality which is transferred by ancestors or parents plays a great role to determine the life of offspring. Robert and Andrew Mayo do great labour to get success in their occupation but that ends as meaningless due to the instinctual effect. O'Neill opines that naturalist plays are traditional which relate to the tragic elements: alienation, death, violence and suicide. The play also displays the truth which comes out from experience related in observation and experiment. Most of the naturalist writings are concerned to instinctual and accurate depiction of life and show the reality of the world.Item Female Domination in Bedi'sI Take This Woman(Department of English, 2021) Kathayat, Chet BahadurThis dissertation analyzes female domination in Rajinder Singh Bedi’s novel,I Take This Woman from the perspective of feminism. It helps to clarify the gender roles with belief that males are primary and females are secondary. Bedi challenges this notion by positioning the central female character, Rano. This novel raises the voices of secondary position of female, women violence and exploitation in the patriarchal society. This novel provides initiative of women in the formation of modern society which provides equal roles and position to males and females. This novel shows the real life style ofPanjabi village people of India where Rano is the main female character.The prime concern of this novel is to disrupt the traditional gender roles. The whole novel is an example of violence upon women. How the gangs of oppressors’ make the vulnerable situation to women in patriarchal society can be clearly seen in this novel. Bedi has used the satiric views as his weapon to subvert the existing belief of women violence. Through this novel Bedi has tried to challenge the male ideology of superiority and create equality male and female. Keywords:Male hegemony, domination, patriarchy, discriminatio, violence, exploitation, oppression, faminne, etc.Item Feminist Reconstruction of Memory in Aftermath(Department of English, 2009) Shapkota, Mohan BikramThis research explores the feminist reconstruction of memory in the Meenakshie Verma'sAftermath,an oral history of violence. In 1947 British India was divided into India and Pakistan. Millions of people were killed and displaced in partition. Many women got physical and psychological torture in the partition violence but the national history of post-partition neglected these facts. The historians did not include the memories of the partition victims. This research claims that Aftermath tries to question the mainstream representation of the partition violence. It reconstructs the memories from the feminist point of view to write about the real trauma of women and war victims and to rewrite the partition history as more inclusive and whole.Item Grotesque Consequence of Violence in Khaled Hosseini'sThe Kite Runner(Central Department of English, 2011) Karki, Surya BahadurThis project“Grotesque Consequence of Violence in Khaled Hosseini'sThe Kite Runner” tries to excavate the Talibani's so-called nationalist movement against theRussianinvasion that createdcivil waron theAfghan soil and turned into war- ravaged country.Taliban's violence results into traumatic conditionthat creates hunger, poverty, uncertainty, landmine, refugee problem, sexual exploitation, racial discrimination by pashtunto Hazara, destruction ofhappy family life andthecultural heritageare some of the key issues of violence that creatednational and cultural trauma.The traumaticconsequencewhichis very much horrific and painful is depicted inThe Kite Runner.Item Patriarchal Violence inCracking IndiaandJasmine(Department of English, 2007) Tamang, SusmaBapsi Sidhwa'sCracking Indiaand Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine written on the backdrop of the partition violence and violence of identity, show the plight of abducted women and transformation of identity due to the patriarchal nature of violence. In such partition violence, like Ayah, thousands of women were abducted and raped whereas in the violence of identity, the protagonist Jasmine changes her identity given by her husbands. InCracking India,after getting abducted and raped, their status were reduced as fallen women and inJasmine, the protagonists' voice remained unheard. In both novels, the women resist the domination and patriarchal violence inflicted on them.Item Racial Injustice in Olaudah Equiano's The Life of Olaudah Equiano(Department of English, 2007) Gurung, KumarOlaudah Equiqno’sThe Life of Olaudah Equianoreveals that racial injustice, domination, discrimination,oppression, and violence inflicted upon the blacks by the whites in racist societies of African Continents, America, and Europe in 18 century. This autobiography exposes the whites’ supremacist racial ideology, that is enacted in social and cultural practices through different organizations, agencies, institutions like church, court, law, institutions, media, police and army, market and othersthat serve to the ruling racial group.Despite their resistance and protest the blacks being gripped with the racial ideology fail to avoid racial imposition and injustice of the whites, but Equiano in individual level succeeds in his resistance because he understands the subject position and material conditions.Item Representation of Female Characters in Devkota'sLaxmi Katha Sangrah(Department of English, 2009) Dotel, LaxmiLaxmiKatha Sangrah (2032v.s.)is an anthology of short fictions by Laxmi Prsad Devkota. The major female characters in thestories reflect the females’ situation in patriarchal society who are victimized due to the male violence, domination and oppression. These stories show the females are given inferior and pathetic space in the Hindu culture and society.The patriarchal literary trend depicts the women as irrational, dependent, fragile, emotional and weak. It has created such dominated or evil image of females in socity. The passive amd negative image forces women to be more victimized. Feminism struggles against such representation of women. It tries to establish the free, independent, active and positive realistic image of females. Likewise Devkota’s female charaters resist the patriarchal domination.The female characters in the stories have marginalized and subordinated status. But the protagonists of those stories raise their voice against patriarchy. They challenge the role, space and stereotypical image provided to them.They resist the male ideology of keeping themout of mainstream. Each of the story, collected and compiled inLaxmi Katha Sangrahcontains a separate,safe,and liberal space for the subaltern females. They get chance to be aware and conscious against the elitist patriarchal ideology there. These stories provide echo of the women from all class,caste and culture. Hence, through these stories writer exposes voice of the subaltern (females).Item Representation of Partition Trauma: A Comparative Study of Nahal's Azadi and Sidhwa's Ice-Candy Man(Central Department of English, 2019) Bhatt, Bhagarati KumarThe split between India and Pakistan served to heighten each other's hostilities instead of bringing peace in the both independent countries. Millions of people were affected by such hostilities. During that violence, there is the scene of home burnt down, villages abandoned, child abducted, women were embarrassed of the sexual humiliation and they compelled to suicide because their family refuse to accept them. The destruction of family through murder, suicide and kidnapping are the main cause of grievous trauma of partition which Chaman Nahal and Bapsi Sidhwa very clearly focus in their novel Azadi and Ice Candy Man. But the problem is there; both writers use the prose of otherness to demonize the opposite community. Nahal projects that Muslims are responsible for the eruption of the partition violence. In his novel, he presents the tragic story of Hindus and Sikhs refugee who are originally belonging from Sialkot, Pakistan but forcefully avoid their ancestral home. Nahal's novel shows Hindus and Sikhs are suffering from Partition. Similarly, Sidhwa presents the tragic story of Hindu sand Muslims people in Lahore. She clearly mentions that during partition Muslims and Pakistan have suffered. Therefore, these types of representation of their work show the possibility of identity politics of author in their novel Azadi and Ice-Candy Man. Key Words: Cultural Trauma, Partition, violence, prose of othernessItem Self-Psychology in Eugene O'Neill'sMourning Becomes Electra(Department of English, 2009) Jha, ShiddharthThe present thesis titled "Self-psychology in Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra" covers the leading psychological problems of twentieth century America. O'Neill has recorded in a powerful way the plight of men and women, and their struggling with self-fragmentation, suicidal frustration, alienation, violence, and addictive behaviours. O'Neill's characters are leading the life of unfulfilled desire and fractured families. Their self-cohesion is assaulted by world wars, drastic distinction between race and social class and weakening of supportive familial ties. Their fractured and fragmented selves lead them to the state of destruction, where almost all the characters are either killed, or committedsuicide or prisonedthemselves till death.Item A Study on Human Trafficking and HIV/AIDS in Chitwan District(Department of Management, 2009) Chaulagain, Madan KumarNot available