Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ193335

Identity and Cultural Crisis in Indian Female Immigrants: A Reading of Bharati Mukherjee's The Tiger's Daughter, Desirable Daughters and Jasmine

Authors(2) :-Dr. Manju Srivastava, Dr. Seema Nigam

Identity crisis is a real problem in the present world community. A cultural crisscross creates an identity which is multiple and fluid. Contemporary everyman, George Steiner moves on to survive, to grow. As a Third World Feminist writer, Bharati Mukherjee writes about the expatriate Indian woman moving to the west. As identities are constantly evolving and are strongly connected to the time and place they create problems for immigrants settling to a new country. According to John McLeod, it is common for immigrants and their children to experience a feeling of living in between different nations . This means that a person does not see him/herself as belonging to either country. This sense of living in between two worlds can be painful, perilous and marginalizing for the migrants and may cause them to have feelings of displacement, fragmentation and discontinuity. The feeling of in-between or unhomeliness creates the need for the immigrant to create a new sense of identity-through hybridization and this new identity can be called hybrid identity. Hybrid identities are never complete in themselves. They remain perpetually in motion, open to change and reinscription. The paper attempts to explore the reality of the Indian female immigrant experience in times of cultural globalization.

Authors and Affiliations

Dr. Manju Srivastava
Associate Professor, D.A.V College, Kanpur, U.P., India
Dr. Seema Nigam
Assistant Professor, D.B.S. College, Kanpur, U.P, India

Immigration, Identity, Acculturation, Multiculturalism.

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 1 | Issue 1 | January-February 2018
Date of Publication : 2018-01-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 183-191
Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ193335
Publisher : Shauryam Research Institute

ISSN : 2581-6306

Cite This Article :

Dr. Manju Srivastava, Dr. Seema Nigam, "Identity and Cultural Crisis in Indian Female Immigrants: A Reading of Bharati Mukherjee's The Tiger's Daughter, Desirable Daughters and Jasmine", Shodhshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (SHISRRJ), ISSN : 2581-6306, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp.183-191, January-February.2018
URL : https://shisrrj.com/SHISRRJ193335

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