LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:9 September 2018
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The Concept of ‘Self’ in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel

Dr. R. Sundararaj

The Stone Angel

The Stone Angel (1964) is the first novel penned down by Margret Laurence in the series of her works situated in the fictional city of Manawaka. As Bharathi Harishankar rightly points out, Laurence’s construction of the fictional city Manawaka is in itself a unique creation, which can only be matched with the fictional South Indian Town created by R. K. Narayanan in his novels and short stories (21). The popularity and much acclaimed critical reception for The Stone Angel can be attributed to Laurence’s ability to represent the ‘self’ of the protagonist Haggard Shipley and other characters as an integral and inevitable part of Manawaka’s life and culture. It is also one of her richest novels in which the reader is offered a clear glimpse of the concept of ‘self’ and its related problems that Canada is always associated with. The exemplification of ‘self’ gets an in-depth thematic significance due to the feminine gender and extreme pride by which the character of Shipley is shaped. This paper makes a critical examination of how the concept of ‘self’ is presented in Margret Laurence’s The Stone Angel, as this particular theme is found recurring not only in The Stone Angel, but also in all most all of her novels.

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Dr. R. Sundararaj
Assistant Professor of English
Thiruvalluvar University Constituent Arts and Science College
Kallakurichi
Tamilnadu
India

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