Pub Date : 2019-09-30DOI: 10.3126/jodem.v10i1.30398
I. Mishra
This article aims to analyze the struggle of Yogamaya, the lead female character of the novel Yogamāyā, by Neelam Karki Niharika. The novel based on the real life story of a rebel, Yogamaya, chronicles the incidents of her life that triggered her to cast off her feminine self and rebel for the establishment of a just society based on equity. The article examines those factors that force Yogamaya to rebel against the existing society and the process of her rebellion drawing insights form Helen Cixous and other feminists who find patriarchal gender roles based on binary opposition as oppressive, and suggest that women should act beyond gender binary and subvert the patriarchal norms and values that restrict them in every walk of their lives. I use transliteration and free translation while citing from the novel in the analysis. The finding of the article suggests that a number of factors instigate Yogamaya cast of her feminine self and emerge as a rebel. It helps to understand how Yogamaya subverts patriarchy within its bound exposing the inherent biasness in it.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-30DOI: 10.3126/jodem.v10i1.30397
Bhawana Pokharel
Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt embodies homosexual relationship between its female characters namely Therese and Carole. In doing so, it presents a resistance to the contemporary heterosexual society which accepts only heterosexuality as its sexual norm. The article argues that the character’s rejection of the traditional mode of heterosexual relationship is in order to search for their lesbian self though that is taken as a deviation in the society; and so it faces various challenges. However, the characters together overcome the obstacles laid down by the society and move forward to finding freedom as well as establishing a new path which is taken as an unconventional practice in the then society; in turn, it proves to be the harbinger of hope and happiness for their kind. To substantiate this claim, the article draws from Lillian Faderman, Adrienne Rich, Judith Butler and Helen Boyd for the different aspects of lesbianism and queer theory they present. Similarly, the article is a descriptive, interpretive and analytical reading of the novel on the basis of the ideas based on the above mentioned scholars.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-30DOI: 10.3126/jodem.v10i1.30402
M. Pokharel
The use of ecological awareness in the Vālmikī Rāmāyana is an exemplary case to deal with the postmodern environmental crisis. This research paper focuses on the connection between flora and fauna in this classical text. This study primarily interprets the discourses of the text which relates to the ecological awareness. At the same time, it also deals with the logic behind constructing the discourse of the poet through the activities of the characters and their thoughts related to ecology. To analyze the ecological awareness of the text, ecological study has been used as an overall theoretical approach. This study is significant in order to present how Vālmikī Rāmāyana manifests the ecological awareness to the postmodern people. The research approach adopted in this exploration is interpretive. The findings of this investigation provide the evidences that the epic has used ecological awareness in such a way that the epic impresses humans to make a balance between nature and creatures. The main conclusion drawn from this research is that Vālmikī is a far-sighted classical poet to make human beings aware of ecological crisis and its effects everywhere in the world.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-30DOI: 10.3126/jodem.v10i1.30396
Bam Dev Adhikari
The portrayal of prostitutes as the characters and prostitution as the institution is a rampant subject in Spanish American novels since the time of the first novelist of the continent, Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi. Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel The Green House portrays the women characters in pathetic exploitation, mainly sexual exploitation. The exploitation of the women in the novel is inextricably connected with the political system of Peru. The capitalist economic/ political system of Peru in the second half of the 20th century forced women to sell their body for their survival. Prostitution is treated as an industry from which the investors or the bidders earn surplus money. My argument is that the political/economic system, capitalism is responsible for the alienation and exploitation of women in Peru in the 1960s.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.3126/jodem.v10i1.30399
Jiwan Kumar Rai
The decade of 2010s is very crucial in literary creation, particularly poetry writing in Nepali literature because the trend of writing shifted to the representation of marginalised people and their “culture as whole way of life” (qtd in During 2). Mainly the indigenous poets are concerned to the issues of marginalised indigenous people. Bhupal Rai's collection of poem Fire Cares not Its Birthday Anniversary falls in the same trend that deconstructs the cultural discourses of the state power and reconstructs the discourse of the indigenous people. In this context, this study aims to find out the issues of cultural discourses in the poems that the poet resists against and reconstructs a new body of knowledge, i.e. a counter discourse of marginalized. In the same way, it attempts to unfold how he resists against the existing body of cultural discourses and reconstructs the discourses from the perspective of marginalised people. Similarly, this study aims to analyses the logical reasons of redefining and reconstructing the existed ruling groups' body of knowledge. The interpretive method has been used to analyses the texts. For this, Foucault's concept of power/discourse has been applied as a theoretical tool. This research article gives the insights to see the interwoven power relations in social practices and construction of knowledge.
2010年代是尼泊尔文学创作的关键时期，尤其是尼泊尔文学的诗歌写作，因为写作的趋势转向了对边缘化人群及其“作为整体生活方式的文化”的表现(见期间2)。土著诗人主要关注边缘化土著人民的问题。Bhupal Rai的诗集《Fire Cares not Its Birthday Anniversary》与解构国家权力的文化话语、重建原住民话语的趋势是一致的。在此背景下，本研究旨在找出诗人在诗歌中所抵制的文化话语问题，并重建一种新的知识体系，即边缘化的反话语。以同样的方式，试图揭示他如何从边缘人群的视角来抵制现存的文化话语体，并重建话语。同样，本研究旨在分析重新定义和重构现有统治集团知识体系的逻辑原因。本文采用解释法对文本进行分析。为此，福柯的权力/话语概念被用作理论工具。本文对社会实践和知识建构中相互交织的权力关系有了深刻的认识。
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.3126/jodem.v10i1.30400
K. P. Bhandari
The core concern of this article is to unravel the underlying mystery of mental activities; it reveals how a writer tends to weave his thoughts and memories. The article aims at dealing with the bases of writer’s reasons and recollections appeared in journal. The analysis as such becomes significant to synchronize, acknowledge and recognize the basic causes behind the seemingly scattered and deviated thoughts but coherently correlated concepts of the writer. In order to achieve such importance and objective of this study, this qualitative research has implemented an outlook the nature / culture ambivalent aspect of the broad perspective, ecocriticism on shaping one’s perception as a tool. And the model text to be analyzed is “Reminiscences of a Journey to Greece” a journal prepared by Govinda Raj Bhattarai. After the investigation into this journal, the exploration elucidates that one’s encounter with the environment becomes the generator and stimulator of mental matters memoirs, concepts, ideas and emotions. Therefore, the key conclusion of this analysis is that one cannot generate ideas in the void or absence of context rather the external world becomes the bedrock to beget inner world the conceptions of the creator in journal.
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