Volume II Issue IV October-December 2022

Name of Author : Mrs. Suja. J & Dr. P. Helmsly Solomon

Title of the paper : An Identity Crisis in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Queen of Dreams

Abstract: This paper focuses in the identity crisis or search for identity with various sections like self-identity, search for home and nostalgic experience. It has received an impelling force in the Post Colonial Literature. Indian English fiction deals at length with the problems, rising due to multi-culturalism and intercultural communications. Man is known as a social animal who needs some a home, love of parents, friends and relatives. But when he is homeless, he loses the sense of belongingness and thus suffers from a sense of insecurity or identity crisis. Identity is the most appealing fervour of the dispersed societies in an established institution. In the current scenario, everyone wants to move to western countries for better conception. Those immigrants lose their sense of belonging and they search for their identities and finally land up in hybrid identity. They are in the state of in-betweenness, only very few of the immigrants are successful in adopting the new culture.

Keywords : In-betweenness, nostalgic, search, identity crisis

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Page No. : 47-51