Subversion of the Biological Identity in Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s Secret Daughter
| dc.contributor.author | Joshi, Tara Kumari | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-16T09:35:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-04-16T09:35:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research explores the conflict between biological and cultural identities which entail the identity crisis of the main character Ashain Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s novel Secret Dughter, who lives in America with her mixed race foster parents. The Researcher examines the issue of identity conflict and identity crisis from the perspective of the theory of identity by Stuart Hall,Richard Jenkins and Adrian Holliday. Going through the issue of identity conflict, this research presents identity crisis and the feeling of incomplete and uncertain inthe life of an adoptive girl,Asha. When her biological identity does not match with the culturally constructed identity then she goes through the identity crisis.This thesis tries to show how Asha’s classmate streat her as‘other’in the classroom leads to her through the identity crisis.At the very starting, there comes a problematic situation in herlifedue to the conflict of biological identity and culturally constructed identity but with the change of time, she gets the ultimate solution of her problems when her culturally constructed identity wins over her biological identity. Key Words: Identity Crisis, Culture, Conflict,Biological, Adaptation, Love, Hate, Ambivalence, Hybridity, Discrimination, Gender | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/16427 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of English | en_US |
| dc.subject | Identity crisis | en_US |
| dc.subject | Discrimination | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ambivalence | en_US |
| dc.subject | Hybridity | en_US |
| dc.title | Subversion of the Biological Identity in Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s Secret Daughter | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| local.academic.level | Masters | en_US |
| local.institute.title | Central Department of English | en_US |