Women and the Struggle for Identity: A Study of Santosh Kumar Ghosh's Kinu Goalar Goli
Abstract:
This paper would focus on Santosh Kumar Ghosh's Bengali novel Kinu Goalar Goli as a text which describes the struggle for an individual identity through estrangement, suffering and rootlessness embedded in the movement of the various women characters in the novel, both physically and psychologically, both externally and internally. The novel tells the story of Neela who has to leave their old house in a so-called civilized neighbourhood and move to Kinu Goala's Lane', a congested, dirty and isolated lane in the then Calcutta, due to severe financial crisis in herfamily. How she tries to adjust herself with the new place with all her efforts constitutes a large portion of the novel, but gradually it becomes the story of two other women, Shanti and Shakuntala who also fight their internal rootlessness and struggle desperately to establish individual identities of their own. Their search for a home of their own is also symbolic in their journey towards finding themselves. I would, therefore, try to explore the various nuances of internal estrangement that the three women characters suffer and how they successfully find a home and a world of their own where they can resolve the identity crisis that they have undergone for a long time in their lives.
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