FRACTURED IDENTITY AND THE TRAUMA OF ROOTLESSNESS: A STUDY OF TIGER’S DAUGHTERS
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FRACTURED IDENTITYAbstract
Quest for self and search for identity arrest natives psyche in the maze of tradition and modernity. Neither they can detach themselves from their past and sweet memories of their native and where they were regarded or respected as intellectuals and brilliant typhoon, nor do they indulge in their future. The reason to that in a foreign land, they are treated not more than a servant or secondary. In such circumstances they feel hopeless, alienated and totally alone. In the regard Sushma Tandon remark.
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R.S. Pathak, Quest for Identity in Indian English Writing. Vol. I. New Delhi : Bahri Publications, 1992, p. 17.
Shashi Brata, My God Died Young. Delhi: Orient Paperback, 1967, pp. 229-30.
Sushma Tandon, Bharati Mukherjee’s fiction : A Perspective. New Delhi : Sarup & Sons, 2004, p.15.
Arun Joshi, The Foreigner. Delhi: Hind Pocket Books, 1968, p.7.
Bharati Mukherjee, The Tiger’s Daughter. New Delhi : Penguin Book, 1990, p.27.
Ibid., p. 20.
Ibid., p.115.
Ibid., p.55.
Ibid., p.50.
Quoted by Sushma Tandon, Bharati Mukherjee’s Fiction: A Perspective. New Delhi : Sarup & Sons, 2004, p.28.
