Quest For Female Identity in Anita Rau Badami's Tamarind Mem

Abstract

This research explores a female’s quest for identity in Third World context. Here, the female protagonist, Saroja, is portrayed as a frustrated woman confined in the traditional norms of society and as a woman having erratic nature. Saroja is fed up and exhausted with the society which doesn't let her to create her identity. Even after her marriage, she realizes unsuccessful because of her husband's uncommunicative, unaffectionate and dominating nature. So, after the death of her husband and daughter's maturity, she breaks the conventional pattern of society by opting for unconventional tour of India to assert her individuality, emancipation and free wish. .