Quest for Female Identity in Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter

Abstract

Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter moves around the protagonist Rosa who wants her autonomous self and independent identity. It focuses on the main character Rosa who travels towards France and enjoy her sensual pleasure by ignoring own originality. And eventually she returns with the awareness of the importance of her attachment with her society with whom she cannot escape and sustain. The basic aim of this research is to analyze that an individual identity is always relational one .It focuses that the identity is changeable, and our notion of identity is greatly influenced by cultural, political and economic phenomena.