Quest for Feminine and Cultural Identity by Contemporary Indian Adolescent Girls in the Young Adult Literary Works of Metali Perkins

Abstract

Purpose: The goal of this review paper is to draw attention to the multiple difficulties that modern Indian adolescent girls encounter in their quest for personal and cultural identity in an intercultural and globally connected environment. This study highlights the current social and cultural challenges the adolescent Indian females must overcome in order to pursue and realise their ambitions. This study aims to examine how these issues are handled in the chosen books of Mitali Perkins. Design/Methodology/Approach: The current study has a qualitative tone and relies more on reasoning than a survey. The masterwork by Mitali Perkin, "You Bring the Distant Near," served as the research's primary source. Secondary sources included the internet and a few particular articles. Most of the research journals are used from Research Gate, Google Scholar, Academia, SSRN, and Shodhganga to identify the research gap in this study. Results/ Findings: The challenges that modern adolescent females in India encounter are the paper's principal finding. These girls' attempts to preserve their cultural heritage and find their own sense of identity are also included. Perkin vividly depicts a young girl's internal struggle to uphold cultural expectations while still pursuing her own sense of identity as a woman. Originality/Value: This study is unique and groundbreaking because it uses Mitali Perkins' novels to examine the subject of Indian adolescent girls overcoming obstacles and dismantling barriers to achieve their unique cultural and personal identities. Type of Paper: Literature review.