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| Article Name : | | | LIFE ON THE MARGIN: CAMERON IN DIVAKARUNI’S ONE AMAZING THING | | Author Name : | | | Darbarsing D. Girase | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-6461 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel One Amazing Thing tells the fascinating tale of nine people gathered in the Indian visa office in certain American city when earthquake devastates the building leaving them trapped in the basement of the building. In the course of its development the novel reveals their ordinary yet highly absorbing lives as they tell about one amazing thing in their respective lives. Cameron, an African American ex-soldier is one of them. He is a man of fifty and a tortured soul. The paper focuses on the character of Cameron and attem- pts to analyse his character to find out the causes and effects of his lifelong suffering which hint at his marginalized and tribal back- ground. | | Keywords : | | - Cameron,tribal,marginality,otherness,
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