The Changing Face of Conjugal Conflicts in Manju Kapur’s <i>The Immigrant</i>

Sayyada Begum

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The Changing Face of Conjugal Conflicts in Manju Kapur’s The Immigrant

Sayyada Begum

Published in English Language, Literature & Culture (Volume 8, Issue 3)

Received: 10 August 2023 Accepted: 1 September 2023 Published: 14 September 2023

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Abstract

Conjugal relationship is one of the basic human relationships which lay the foundation of family life and strengthen family bonding. Marriage is the basis of this relationship-it begins with marriage and ends with death of or divorce from the partner. It is considered to be the most important human relationships as it has a considerable bearing on domestic peace and social integration. Husband and wife are not just sexual partners in a household but two individuals physically, emotionally, financially, and socially interdependent and in serious commitment to each other. Conflicts arising out of the complications in conjugal relationship have been dealt with as an important theme in Indian English novels. Manju Kapur (b. 1948) is one of the reputed living Indian women novelists in English and her novel, the immigrant (2008), which primarily deals with the theme of immigration to Canada, also presents the changing faces of conjugal conflicts concerning a well settled immigrant who joins his family in India to marry an Indian girl, sponsors his wife for immigration to Canada and brings her to Canada as his conjugal partner. The paper seeks to explore the nuances of the conjugal life of the immigrant couple during the transition from nationalization to globalization, which create problems and trigger conflicts in their life abroad.

Published in	English Language, Literature & Culture (Volume 8, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.ellc.20230803.17
Page(s)	72-76
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Science Publishing Group

Keywords

Immigrants, Conjugal-Rights, Autonomy, Interdependence, Mutual-Adjustment Sexual-Dysfunction, Conjugal Conflicts, Extramarital Relationship

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