Identity Crisis: A Study of Transgender Autobiography Me Hijra, Me Laxmi by Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
Keywords:
Transgender, violence, hijra, Guru-chela, sex workerAbstract
Identity crisis is one of the prominent themes in transgender autobiographies. They suffered from this trauma during their childhood, because they are unaware of the changes that they experienced during the growth and development of their bodies. This paper aims to analyze the identity crisis which is faced by Laxmi, the protagonist of her autobiography. Along with the crisis of the protagonist, this paper also tries to depict the identity crisis that the minority people of India are faced. Transgenders face ample problems from, birth to death, from identity crisis to cremation. Once there was a certain time when they are confused about their identity, and whom they belonged to.
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