Abstract
The quest for self-identityposits crucially in diasporic discourse. This paper is an attempt to examine how the multi-faceted novelist, poet, activist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni evokes the journey motif in her bildungsroman novel Oleander Girl and strategically uses it to showcase the growth and development of her main protagonist Korobi trajectorially.The focus will be an exploration of the parallel journey – one towards an outward physical destination, and the other one aboutan inner journey towardswholeness, completeness and selfhood. The research paper seeks to analyse how Korobi traverses through the various stages of the journey during her formidable quest to seek answers regarding her true heritage and how this turns into a journey ofself-discoveryas well.
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