Immigrant Psychology in South Asian Canadian Women’s Poetry

The paper focuses on immigrant psychology of South Asian Canadian Women’s Poetry. It is based on Shakti’s Words:An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women’s Poetry edited by Deane McGifford and Judith Kearns. It comprises of eleven poets who migrated to Canada. These women feel that they are socially marginalized but psychologically colonized too. Economic independence does not exempt them from struggle of a ‘woman’ on the contrary it adds the strike of an immigrant. Immigrant experiences are central to most of their poems. So, the paper zeroes in to analyze ‘upischolar_mained’, ‘displaced’, ‘dislocated’, psychological condition of these women poets.