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Struggle from Acculturation to Assimilation: Maya’s Terminal Catastrophe in Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock

Author(s) Sunita Goyal
Country India
Abstract The psychological tumult is a common human phenomenon and there are only a few Indian women writers who spotlight the psychological narration in their fictions. Many Indian women diasporic writers have taken the theme of cultural clashes, acculturations and the immigrants’ struggle to acclimatise in a foreign culture. There are many writers of Indian diaspora who have written their works on the East-West conflicts, cultural clash, identity crisis, rootlessness, placelessness and many more diaspora related themes but out of these themes, the theme of psychical turmoil and neurotic disorder is quite rare and only limited number of writers have capability to handle this theme appropriately and justifiably in their novels. Among such novelists, Anita Desai’s name can be taken at the forefront because she has painted the hue of women’s psyche and their shift-changing emotional tides in her novels. In this context, her novel Cry, the Peacock (1963) is a psychological study of its main female protagonist, Maya whose trials and tribulations, her status quo and her struggle against androcentric doctrines are the core themes of her novel Cry, the Peacock. It can be called a feminist novel with a tinge of violence in it. Maya’s metamorphosis from a highly ambitious girl to a criminal has been narrated in this novel, and the subtle human emotions, the storm of desires and the female psyche have been poignantly described in it thorough monologue, stream of consciousness, and impassioned soliloquies
Keywords Indian Women’s Writing, Womanhood, Psychological Conflicts, Emotional Predicaments, Memories, Marriage, Anita Desai, Cry, the Peacock, Manifesto, Maya, Fantasy, Indian Writing in English
Field Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In Volume 4, Issue 5, September-October 2022
Published On 2022-10-31
Cite This Struggle from Acculturation to Assimilation: Maya’s Terminal Catastrophe in Anita Desai’s Cry, the Peacock - Sunita Goyal - IJFMR Volume 4, Issue 5, September-October 2022.
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