Culture, Identity and Dislocation: Contingent Selfhood in Anita Brookner's Visitors

Abstract

Focusing on the novel Visitors by Anita Brookner, the present research work studies the protagonist's making of contingent selfhood. In this regard, the crises of culture, identity and location are trapped to dislocation and nebulous existence. The social scenario and time, places and circumstances play vital role for creating selfhood. And these are the alchemists for changeability of the protagonist, Dorothea May’s self identity. So, human identity is always contingent.