• P.Helan Jona
• Dr. Cheryl Davis

This paper focuses on the search for identity with various sections like self - identity, search for home and nostalgic experience. Identity crisis or search for identity has received an impetus in the Post-Colonial Literature. Indian English fiction deals at length with the problems, rising due to multi-culturalism and intercultural interactions. Man is known as a social animal who needs some a home, love of parents and friends and relatives. But when he is homeless, he loses the sense of belongingness and thus suffers from a sense of insecurity or identity crisis. Identity is the most appealing fervour of the dispersed societies in an established institution. In the current scenario, everyone wants to move to western countries for a better perspective. Those immigrants lose their sense of belonging and they search for their identities and finally land up in hybrid identity i.e. fusion of two or more cultures. They are in the state of in-betweenness, only very few of the immigrants are successful in adopting the new culture.

In-betweenness, nostalgic, search, identity crisis.

"SEARCH FOR IDENTITY IN CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI’S QUEEN OF DREAMS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.196-199, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907485.pdf

"SEARCH FOR IDENTITY IN CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI’S QUEEN OF DREAMS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp196-199, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907485.pdf