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Self-Discovery in Margaret Laurence’s
The Diviners

Dr. Sumathy K. Swamy, Associate Professor
Reshmi KV, Ph.D. Scholar
P.S.G.R. Krishnammal College for Women


Abstract

Canadian Literature has the search for national individuality. The Canadian quest on identity crisis rapidly moves with a great deal of importance and forcefulness. There is a diligence of the forces and factors that have undermined the efforts to make up the mind from the dilemma of identity. The search of individualization of Margaret Laurence’s heroines provides a platform to think with the sense of discontinuity and displacement caused by the colonial experience in Canada. It engenders a sense of inadequacy and insufficiency which affected the acquisition of an adequate whole identity. The Diviners has Morag as its heroine who cross a number of hurdles in her life to discover her own self.

Keywords:Margaret Laurence, The Diviners, replicate, individuality, depression, identity, Margaret Laurence, The Diviners

Fictional Autobiographies

Margaret Laurence occupies a unique position among the women writers of Canadian fiction. She observes the dilemma of the question for identity and takes efforts to discover in fictional terms and styles to consider the women’s problems. Her novels are usually thoughtful with the woman’s or nation’s identity. They also replicate the wide apprehension for the position of women in society and the parallel increase in the longing to develop and emphasize a individual search for Canadian identity. As Barbara Hehner says: “The Diviners comes to grips with currently debated issues much more explicitly than Laurence’s previous fiction: the search for a Canadian Identity, the discrimination encountered by women, the unjust treatment of native people, and even ecology, find a place in the novel (Hehner 41)

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Reshmi KV, Ph.D. Scholar
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Coimbatore 641004
Tamilnadu
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