Repercussion Of Cultural Clashes In Manju Kapur's The Immigrant

ABSTRACT

Manju Kapur primarily writes about the plight and repression of Indian women as well as their resistance to it. Marriage, families, complexities in relationships and separation are some of the most pervasive themes in her fiction. Manju Kapur's The Immigrant is a story of dislocation and cultural conflict. The novel revolves around a thirty-one-year-old spinster, Nina, who lived with her widowed mother in Delhi. She marries Ananda, an NRI, dentist and she flies to Canada to start her new life. The paper discusses how the novelist brings up the life of a married woman, with only her husband to talk to, all alone in a foreign land where Indian culture and individualism have often remained alien ideas. This paper delves into the issues of alienation and the search for cultural identity, as well as transformation of Nina and Ananda as a result of becoming an immigrant.