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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThe vine of desire by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is Divakurni?s trilogy
which reflects immigrants? life and their problems in the adopted land. Since her
novel talks about immigrants? life it will affect in the cultural problems. The
cultural problems in this novel are dominated by cultural displacement which
happens on Anju and Sudha. Their displacement is caused by their dissatisfaction
about Indian cultural values. Their displacement experience makes them throw
away the Indian cultural values and adopts American culture, which makes them
have the ambivalence later. To reveal the displacement in the Anju and Sudha I
use culture displacement and ambivalence concepts, therefore, the two concepts
are included into cultural studies. In the analysis, I find their desires to be free
from Indian cultural values cooptation, through their dreams and rebellions.
Besides, I find also their ambivalence attitudes through their adaptation with new
land. The conclusion of my analysis is ambivalence identity of Anju and Sudha,
which is affected by their displacement. They create middle culture by combine
American and Indian cultures in their life and I call it as ambivalence identity.