Deconstructing the Ideology of Ability and Beauty in "A Flower in the Midst of Thorns", an Autobiographical essays by JHAMAK GHIMIRE, Translated from Nepali "Jivan Kanda kiPhul" by Nagendra Sharma Safal Sharma
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Faculty of Art in English
Abstract
This thesis explores how the prevailing notion of ability and beauty is
deconstructed/dispelled in the writings of a physically disabled woman writer, Jhamak
Ghimire particularly based on her autobiographical book, A Flower in the Midst of
Thorn. The renowned Nepali writer, Ghimire challenges the stigmas of the disabled
body by deconstructing the ideology of ability and beauty through her
autobiographical narratives. Based on the disability theory, feminist disability theory
and the theory of post modernism,this research concludes that any creative work is
accomplished through intellect, while the body is just a medium. It aims to prove the
fact that disability is a beauty of life, not a disfigurement. Jhamak’s life is not a
burden but medium of creativity of different nature.