CULTURAL MAZE IN ANITA DESAI'S NOVEL 'BYE-BYE BLACKBIRD'

*Yashar Kareem Sharrad Algburi

ABSTRACT

1. INTRODUCTIONCultural labyrinths unfold in Anita Desai’s 2005 novel, Bye-Bye Blackbird. Thecharacters experience the disorientations of displacement and estrangement. Culturalidentity proves no dispensation, but pressing cause for cultural conflicts; humanrelationships must itself suffer the fracture. Dessai’s characters convey environmentalchange: “Certain novels arise naturally out of certain cities... It is quite natural forone’s novels to reflect one’s immediate environment” (Sharma & Kumar Roy, 2015).The present study applies a lecture on potential cultural impasses to encircle thepossibilities and limit the potentials envisaged

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