• Aparna TV

Abstract: This paper attempts to captures the issues of identity caused by the factors like place and social factors in the short stories, Sara Joseph and Anuradha Sharma Pujari. The identity experiences are a product of the cross-cultural experiences and the possible condition of belonging simultaneously – psychologically and experientially – in the maze of cultural plurality. The paper aims to study the characters in the short stories and provides an overview of the changing cultural norms and altering controversies of identity. The issues of identity due to cultural clashes have already been vastly explored. Therefore, the present approach extends the scope of debate on how Place- identity theory and Social-Identity theory create and recreate an individual’s sense of belonging. Globalisation, leading to a new social and cultural pattern, has largely influenced every new work that is being produced by the writers. This thesis intends to foreground this newness of reading the changing identityof people due to various soci, cultural and political factors, caught in the dichotomies of acculturation and dissociation. This dissertation reveals the different aspects of personal and political experiences and how these experiences further diverge into preservation and appropriation under the sway of globalization, which is a challenge to cultures, to marginalized communities and their identities. But what implies in today’s global cultural space is the existence and sustenance of plural identities because preservation of cultures and identities in their undiluted state becomes impossible under the influence of globalization. Keywords : globalization, identity, sense of belonging.

"The Changing Identities: Analysis of the short stories ‘Sweat-Marks’ and ‘No man’s Land’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.5-9, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906C02.pdf

"The Changing Identities: Analysis of the short stories ‘Sweat-Marks’ and ‘No man’s Land’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp5-9, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906C02.pdf