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Volume 18:7 July 2018
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Question of Women’s Identities in Githa Hariharan’s
Fugitive Histories

Veerendra Patil. C., M.A., KSET, Research Scholar


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Identity and Identity Politics

Identity politics and question of women’s identity are some of the debated issues in the contemporary women’s writing in India. Women’s identity is politicized by many agencies and ideologies which make use of woman’s body. They try to forge a fixed identity for women. Primarily, the word ‘identity’ describes “who a person is, or the qualities of a person or group which make them different from others” according to Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (Third Edition). From this entry, it can be deciphered that the word ‘identity’ describes who a person is and what the qualities of that person are, irrespective of gender. But what happens with the identity of woman is that she is ‘identified’, rather than she ‘identifying’ herself. This is how she becomes the ‘object’, not the ‘subject’. According to Heinz Lichtenstein identity is a human necessity. He says, “loss of identity is a specifically human danger, and maintenance of identity a specifically human necessity.”

Erik Erikson, American-German psychologist, proposed identity to mean a “mutual relation in that it connotes both a persistent sameness within oneself (selfsameness) and a persistent sharing of some kind of essential character with others” . The word itself is contradictory in its meanings which gives ‘sameness’ and ‘difference’. He developed the theory of psychosocial development of an individual through eight stages from infancy to adulthood in his Identity and the Life Cycle. He is also famous for coining the term ‘identity crisis’.

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Veerendra Patil. C, M.A. KSET
Research Scholar
Dept. of Studies and Research in English
VSK University, Ballari, Karnataka
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