LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 5 May 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Coping with Alienation and Attaining Psychic Wholeness in the Novels of Bessie Head and Buchi Emecheta

Anu Baisel, M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate

Alienation

Alienation is the most comprehensive term to describe the mental state of some of Head’s and Buchi’s characters. This term describes both the external and the internal aspects of their problems. Alienation is "a characteristic feature of the modern man, his sense of inward estrangements, of more or less conscious awareness that the inner being, the real "I," is alienated from the "me," the person as an object in society. Many of Head's and Buchi’s characters have the status of stranger inside the society they live in and this situation creates friction, isolation and uneasiness in the life and mind of the newcomer. Head's and Buchi’s protagonists have their inner being disturbed and shattered by different causes: difficulty of adaptation, racial and class prejudices, traumatic memories, repressed feelings and unconventional philosophical or religious beliefs.

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Anu Baisel, M.A., B.Ed., M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate
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Velammal Engineering College
Velammal Nagar, Ambattur -Red Hills Road
Chennai – 600 066
Tamilnadu
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