An Implication of Cultural, Racial and Ethnic Plurality in Margaret Laurence's -The Diviners

Abstract

Margaret Laurence, one of the foremost women writers of Canada meticulously strives to reconstruct the lost identities of the cultural groups of Africa and Canada in the last decades of the twentieth century. Lawrence's Manawaka series for instance, is the deliberation of the cultural groups of indigenous, colonial and immigrants. These varied cultural groups constitute the ‘Canadian Multiculturalism’ as its unique cultural identity. Margaret Laurence rigorously endeavors to portray a naked and realistic picture of Canadian multiculturalism in an imaginary fictional work. The present novel reveals the fact of the multicultural groups have meticulously striving for getting social recognition by means of their rebellion against the atrocity of racial discrimination and experiences of the barbaric disturbances among the ethnic groups. It is all about the nineteenth-century Scottish settlers in the region of Red River and the indigenous Metis. It is also the representation of a woman's quest for having a comprehensive understanding of human community. The novel sheds the light on the lost historical impressions of the indigenous group such as the Metis, in the folktales and songs, and their confrontation with the Sutherlanders for survival.