• R. DEVENDIRAN,
• Dr. P. VASUKI

This paper focuses primarily on the identities of the characters in the novel “Queen of Dreams” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni who is an Asian – American writer of short stories, novels, essays and poems. In all of her novels the main characters are always searching for a homeland and their identity especially those of the Indian immigrants who are living in America. The novelist clearly portrays the condition of the immigrants searching for an identity who are living in America facing the day to day experiences of life and searching for their identity in America. The novelist herself is an immigrant, who brings out the condition of woman in a place, where the characters are suffering due to their existence between their homeland and a new land. This novel ‘’Queen of Dreams’’ is about immigrant people’s struggle for fearless existence and search of a homeland identity.

Identity, Immigrants, Homeland.

"IMMIGRANTS’ IDENTITY IN THE NOVEL “QUEEN OF DREAMS” BY CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.192-197, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAA06040.pdf

"IMMIGRANTS’ IDENTITY IN THE NOVEL “QUEEN OF DREAMS” BY CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp192-197, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAA06040.pdf