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@article{204337,
        author = {Dr.R.Yoga and Mrs. M.Vinothini},
        title = {Erosion of Identity in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {1},
        pages = {3829-3832},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=204337},
        abstract = {This study presents a systematic analysis of the fictional world of Margaret Atwood with a focus on the identity of human being, in which they face the struggle against violence, frustration, despair, and quest for survival and identity. Atwood's self-reflexivity makes her different from other novelists. Atwood brings the condition of the Canadian society to the light along with the problem of the multicultural society like Canada. The prolific writer Margaret Atwood is one of the most famous and talented feminist writers of Post-Modern Canadian Fiction. She is not only a novelist, but a critic, a story teller and a poet also. Through her writings has set a new trend in Canadian literature. As a Feminist writer Margaret Atwood's aims to explore woman's inner psyche, their conflict, search for identity, identity of selfhood, identity of womanhood, national identity, cultural identity and religious identity. Almost all her protagonists are victimized - either by man or by authority or by a particular social environment Atwood examines the place of women in modem society. In Surfacing unnamed narrator becomes an unsuccessful artist in the city of Toronto, due to her art teacher, who is a married man. In this novel the narrator wants to find out her real identity. The whole novel is based on the narrator's attempt to search her missing father, which becomes a symbolic representation of search for the self and country cultural identity. Margaret Atwood brings the condition of the Canadian society to the light along with the problem of multicultural society like Canada.},
        keywords = {Identity, Feminism, Society, Self-condemnation, Victimization. Knowing yourself is the Beginning of all Wisdom Aristotle},
        month = {June},
        }