Quest for Identity in Bharati Mukherjee’s Novel Leave It to Me

Abstract

Quest for identity or identity crisis has achieved propel in the Post Colonial literature. Post colonial literature can be identified by its discussion of cultural identity. It attempts to restore the original culture, conformity to the culture presented by the settlers or the creation of a new culture which combines both the left and the adopted. Indian English fiction deals eventually with the predicament, rising due to multi-culturalism and intercultural interactions. When a man is uprooted, he mislays the sense of belongingness and thus suffers from a sense of insecurity or identity crises.