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- Title
In Search of Identity & Freedom: A Critical Study of Mordecai Richler's Son of a Smaller Hero and Anita Desai's Cry the Peacock.
- Authors
P. V., Shyjee; Selvam, P.
- Abstract
Mordecai Richler is a Jewish Canadian writer. His second novel Son of a Smaller Hero deals with Noah who tries to reject members of the family whom he resembles physically but not psychologically to find himself he see through them and replace their false values with his own definite values. Cry the Peacock is Anita Desai's first novel; it explores the inner world of Maya and demonstrates her fear insecurity and strange behavior. Through her, she depicts a world of alienation, loneliness and suffering. Noah and Maya strive to escape from the tradition. Maya's husband Gautama represents the voice of patriarchy while Noah's grandfather Melech represents pluralism who strives to retain the Jewish culture in a foreign country, Canada. This paper focuses on the change in the identity of a character when they strive to move away from the traditional concept.
- Subjects
SON of a Smaller Hero (Book : Richler); CRY the Peacock (Book); RICHLER, Mordecai, 1931-2001; DESAI, Anita, 1937-; FAMILY values in literature
- Publication
Language in India, 2016, Vol 16, Issue 5, p216
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Literary Criticism