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@article{185430,
        author = {Mr.Abishek.V},
        title = {Between Traditions and Self-Becoming: Identity Crisis and Transformation in Desirable Daughters},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {5},
        pages = {1191-1194},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=185430},
        abstract = {This article investigates the nature of identity crisis and transformation in Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters (2002), focusing chiefly on the protagonist, Tara Chatterjee. This paper explores how Tara negotiates tradition and modernity, internal conflict, familial expectations, and migration. Using close reading of key passages alongside thematic analysis of secondary literature, the article argues that Mukherjee portrays identity not as fixed, but as fluid, multiple, and relational. Tara’s transformation, while real and empowering, remains partial and ambivalent—she redefines herself, yet cannot fully escape her roots. The article contributes to understandings of diaspora, female subjectivity by illustrating how narrative structure, symbolic elements, memory, and the space of migration enable a path to self-becoming even as constraints persist.},
        keywords = {Transformation, assimilation, navigation, migration, resilience, identity.},
        month = {October},
        }