A Critical Study Of Cross-Cultural Conflicts In The Selected Novel Of Anita Desai

Abstract

Culture encompasses social behaviour, belief customs, norms and value found in human societies round the globe. The present research paper analyzes various dimensions relating to Anita Desai's treatment of Cross-cultural conflicts with the relevant and inherent complexities, diversities and challenge involved in the process. It would also explore vision and attitude of Anita Desai according to which she comes to handle the vital subject of Cross-cultural conflicts. Accordingly, the focus is on analyzing the aspirations, anxieties, frustration, helplessness, identity-crises, social and psychological problem of immigrants through the themes and characters in the fictional world of Anita Desai who has successfully depicted various problem faced by the Asian immigrants, especially Indian immigrants in England or America. Moreover, the study also attempts at exploring the situations of conflicts and resolutions, displacement and adjustment, alienation and accommodation, where characters come to feel entrapped in the beginning and then released at the end of the process.