Phenomenon of Cultural Displacement in Sunetra Gupta’s The Glassblower’s Breath

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A. Arun, B. Karthikeyan

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This paper is a critical study of cultural identity in Sunetra Gupta’s The Glassblower’s Breath focuses on issues such as frustration, arrange marriage, racial discrimination, cultural alienation, east-west discord, identity crisis, intercommunity, cultural rootness. Culture, cultural identity, and literature are inseparable. Like literature mirrors different cultural traits, social institutions, stratifications, power structures and power relations of a particular society. Any literary text more or less tries to discover the whole panorama of human life with similarity and differences. The tremendous difference between two ways of life leads a person to a feeling of depression and frustration. Various themes like immigration, cultural conflict, identities, religion, class, race, gender, nationalism, multiculturalism, feminism, rationalism, frustration, caste system arrange marriage, love and hate relationship are reflected in the fiction. Gupta’s fiction has been interpreted in various ways.

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