Diaspora: Quest for Identity
in Manju Kapur’s The Immigrant
Godari Mounika
Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English,
Osmania University, Hyderabad.
ABSTRACT
This paper attempts to study the quest for
identity in Manju Kapur’s The Immigrant (2008) through the lives of
its protagonists Nina and Ananda. The study examines how the
characters in the novel navigate their identities about their self,
social and cultural contexts. Nina, the protagonist, migrated to
Canada after her marriage to an immigrant, Ananda. Nina had
self-identity as an English professor in Delhi. Now in Canada, she
finds herself without a professional educational status, and her
role largely defines her identity as a wife. She became a strong
woman in the alien country and learned to survive alone.
Keywords: Identity, Diaspora, Immigrant, loneliness.
