Treatment of Identity Crisis in I.B. Singer's Shosha

Abstract

Treatment of identity crisis in I.B. Singer's novelShoshahas been analyzed in terms of diaspora. Because of fragmentation and frustration, most of the characters in Shoshacannot create their own identity and position rather they are bounded to move from one to another. Diasporic feeling and sense of fragmentation create not only problem in the life of characters inShoshabut also create alienation and frustration in the life of Eastern European Jews as well. On the whole, Singer's novelShoshatries to show the situation of the characters and their identity crisis which also represent the problems of Jews in Eastern Europe.