• Dr. K. SATHYADEVI

South Asian women writers have arrived like courageous fighters into the diasporic English literary scene. These women were willing to fight for their rights: the right to have their work published and read, and to help others to do the same by overcoming obstacles of every nature.Theresearch paper deals with various aspect of self and female consciousness as perceived in the novel Desirable Daughters(2002) ofBharati Mukherjee. The protagonist Tara as a self- possessed and curious woman exhibits a fervent quest for identity and space of her own.The study offers analysis of the protagonist’s trajectory.Realization of one’s self-identity is a sense of being powerful.The novel is in first person narrative as the protagonist has to retell the family history. The psychological commotion that Tara passes through can be convincinglyexplained when narrated by the victim herself. The study deals out with different layers of self of the characters in the novels. As in the accomplishment of their assertion of self how they come in conflict with the so called, so code and norms which largely serve the purpose of patriarchy set up of the society.

Self Actualization, Transformation of Self, Search for Identity in alien land.

"SELF-ACTUALIZATION AND FEMALE CONSCIOUSNESS IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE’S DESIRABLE DAUGHTERS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 5, page no.793-798, May-2017, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1705135.pdf

"SELF-ACTUALIZATION AND FEMALE CONSCIOUSNESS IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE’S DESIRABLE DAUGHTERS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 5, page no. pp793-798, May-2017, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1705135.pdf