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Volume 18:6 June 2018
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Dislocated Self:
A Study of Immigrant Psyche in Anita Rau Badami’s
The Hero’s Walk

C. Karthika, Ph.D. Research Scholar


Courtesy: https://www.amazon.ca/Heros-Walk-Anita-Rau-Badami/dp/0676973604

Abstract

Migration of people is on the fast move due to the easy access of technologies, transport and communication. Man, being a slave to the pleasures of materialism, shifts to the foreign land for greater education and economic needs. With the hope of bringing change in their life style, the immigrants tend to replicate the manners of the settled land. This in turn makes their identity hybrid and ambivalent. They maintain the tradition of the homeland and also adapt the life style of the host country. The children of these immigrants who are unable to cope with either culture face severe psychic problems and withdraw from the society. The present paper highlights the mental trauma of the second-generation immigrant and the inability to accept the ways of life in the ancestor’s land, India.

Keywords: Anita Rau Badami, The Hero’s Walk, Second generation immigrant, family, dislocation, identity.

Anita Rau

Anita Rau Badami is one of the prominent Indo – Canadian writers. She has written four novels which depict the immigrants' life in Canada. She is born in Odisha, in 1961, India. She earned her B.A in the University of Madras and M.A in the University of Calgary. Cultural conflict, double consciousness and quest for identity are some of the prominent themes that are discussed in her novels. Badami's portrayal of women in her fictions explicates the position of women in India and also in the multinational societies. She is the recipient of many awards, including Marian Engel Award for a woman writer and Regional Common Wealth Writer's Prize for her novel The Hero's Walk. She now lives in Canada.

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C. Karthika, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Government Arts College
Salem- 7
Tamil Nadu
India
Karthika.gac@gmail.com

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