Umadevi Associate Professor, Department of English, S.F.R. College for Women, Sivakasi-626 123. Virudhunagar District. TamilNadu. India. Identity crisis or the quest for identity is basic to the live of human beings. It is innate in every man. So search for identity is an archetypal and universal motif in the literature of all ages. At the…
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Identity Crisis in Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss
Shyam Ji Dubey Lecturer (English) NIET, Gr. Noida Despite many definitions and connotations of ‘identity’, Sudhis Kakar’s view, quoted in Modern Indian Novel in English – “at some places identity is referred to as a conscious sense of individual uniqueness, ..… and at yet other places as a sense of solidarity with a group’s…
Identity Crisis in Girish Karnad’s “A Heap of Broken Images”
-Rukhaya.M.K Kasaragod, India MA,M.Phil. Featured Arts and Entertainment Contributor, AssociatedContent.com rukhaya_mk@rediffmail.com The theme of identity crisis, as prevalent as it is in the plays of Girish Karnad, is the most pronounced in this play as it is titular – A Heap of Broken Images. The play starts off from T.S. Eliot’s “Wasteland”: A heap of…