Dilemma of Identity in Githa Hariharan’s Thousand Faces of Night: A Feminist Perspective

Abstract

In Thousand Faces of Night Githa Hariharan deals with the struggle of three women (Devi, Sita and Mayamma) of three consecutive generations for their survival, freedom and individuality. The novelist has projected the struggle of women in a male dominated society in order to preserving her identity. These three characters faced humiliations and led unfulfilled life in their early stage of their married life but by the end of the novel all the three tried to see themselves and gave a space for their self. They celebrated themselves as free individuals after they are relieved from their marriage knot. Each individual has responded in her own way to provide space for her ‘self’. They walked on the tightrope and struggled for balancing their relations and also for some means of survival they could fashion for themselves.