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Volume 1 Issue 4 |
September 2014 |
| Women’s Quest for Identity: A Global Perspective | |
| Dr. Md. Firoz Alam, Lecturer, Department of English, Magadh Mahila College, Patna, , |
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| Abstract | |
| This paper proposes to examine the issue of the woman's quest for identity with reference to three different contexts: the creole woman's identity-crisis in the colonial context, the emerging woman's search for self-hood in the post-colonial third world, and the anguished quest of the 'free' woman of the first world for a meaningful life of her own. It is from this perspective that the paper will glance through the experiences of a creole woman of Jamaica and Indian women of two generations; these women–as depicted respectively by Kamala Markandaya, Ruth Prawar Jhabvala, Jean Rhys, Anita Desai and Githa Hariharan–are apparently worlds apart from each other due to the situational-cultural-psychic disparities of their respective space-time continuum, and yet show a strange kinship. | |
| Keywords | |
| Quest for Identity; Kamala Markandaya; Ruth Prawar Jhabvala; Jean Rhys; Anita Desai; Githa Hariharan. | |
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