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- Title
Women in Diaspora: A Study of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Fiction.
- Authors
Padmaja, C. V.
- Abstract
Life for women in diasporic situations can be doubly painful as they struggle with the material and spiritual insecurities of exile, the demands of family and work, and the claims of old and new patriarchies. The women are also subjected to insidious racial discrimination and have to struggle against this in almost all walks of life. The discrimination affects them in different ways-from the general to the personal. In the case of Indian-American woman, she is left a "hyphenated" entity, struggling to come to terms with her new life. The works of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni reflect many aspects of diaspora and the experiences of the immigrant women in the host countries. This paper showcases how the female protagonists of Divakaruni's short story collection, Arranged Marriage, and two novels-Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spices-deal with their forcible migration to the West
- Subjects
DIVAKARUNI, Chitra Banerjee, 1956-; AUTHORS; LITERATURE; SIATERS of My Heart (Book); DIASPORA
- Publication
IUP Journal of English Studies, 2017, Vol 12, Issue 3, p50
- ISSN
0973-3728
- Publication type
Article