Volume III Special Issue IV April 2023

Name of Author : Dr.Dhaygude Kakasaheb Dhondiba

Title of the paper : Politics, Feminism and Search for Identity in the Works of Julia Alvarez

Abstract: Love for ones land is a natural phenomenon but due to circumstances an individual or a group migrates to a foreign land. This displacement is voluntary as well as forceful. In the current age of information and technology large number of voluntary migration takes place in search of green pastures. There are innumerable cases where individuals, families and communities forsake their land to evade large-scale violence, discrimination and subjugation. The forceful or state sponsored eviction and displacement destroys the lives of millions of people. The uprooted section never comes out of the nostalgia of its motherland. The natives never accept the immigrated section even after it embraces the new land, its culture and traditions. Although horrible the migration also provides new avenues for the displaced population. Julia Alvarez, a Dominican whose parents leave the land for the deliverance from brutal reprisal of the Dominican regime. The writer through her autobiographical works presents the agonies of rootlessness. The present paper presents how Julia Alvarez deals with the subjugation of woman and search for identity in the adulterated world.

Keywords : Alienation, Identity, Marginalization, Displacement, Subjugation and Violence

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Page Number : 53-56