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Spatial Identity And Cultural Consciousness In Anita Nair's Novel

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Spatial identity and cultural consciousness colligate to territories and lived spaces. In Anita Nair 's novels, most of her characters are tied to their geospace of their native lands and they are trying to assert their identity which is acquired by the interaction by diverse elements of cultural formations and significations. Idris:The Keeper of Light is not an exception to it as the main characters of this novel are always rooted to the familiar spaces and are not willing to severe the bond with the locations of culture identity. Moreover, they are aversed to transplant themselves from their homelands to any other place. The issues of rootedness and displacement recur in her novels and the former assert itself predominantly in the real and imagined realms of her fiction.

Keywords: place, space, spatial identity, cultural consciousness, homeland, rootedness, displacement.

Literature reveals spatial identity and cultural consciousness in its varied manifestations. It can also verbalize the attachment of individuals to various places and spaces. The latitudes and and longitudes of their …show more content…

Most of her characters are rooted in the soil of their land. Many of her characters who are away from their roots are always on the look out for their land of desire and solace. All are trying to reclaim their spatial identity and cultural consciousness as they belong to a particular place. Those who have no distinguishable spatial identity like Idris, fail to create it anew even though they wish it very eagerly. Nobody can get away from the force of their own primal bondings and ancestral relations. As most of Nair 's characters value their spatial identity more than anything else and know that it is emanated from the structures of

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