Feminism and Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Material type: TextPublication details: Jaipur Rawat Publications 2023Description: 238pContent type:- text
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- 9788131612422
- P96 23/eng/20211019 SI643
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
PART I: FEMINIST POLITICS, FEMININE SENSIBILITIES
1.Between Home and the World: Situating South Asian American
Feminism in the Fiction of Chitra Divakaruni
Nalini Iyer
2. Helping Women Help Themselves in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's
Arranged Marriage and The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
Payel Basu
3.Woman to Woman, Sister to Sister: Feminine Connections in
Divakaruni's Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart
Liesl King
4. "Her Story" in Chitra Divakaruni and Shashi Deshpande:
Re-Reading the Mahabharata from Women's Perspectives
Shaweta Nanda
PART II: NARRATING MEMORY AND BELONGING
5. The Statue of Liberty and the Secret Sharer: Chitra Banerjee
Divakaruni's "A Perfect Life"
Sau-ling Cynthia Wong
6. Memory, Nostalgia, and Finding Oneself in Divakaruni's Fiction
Shashikala Assella
7. Transnational Hope in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Short Fiction
8. Morphed Sense of Longing and Belonging in Chitra Banerjee
Divakaruni and Arundhati Roy
PART III: IDENTITY POLITICS AND SOCIAL PROTEST
9. Spicing It Up: Strategic Orientalism and Racial
Divakaruni's Oleander Girl
Pallavi Rastogi
10. "It Was a Bad Time for Muslims in America": Representation
of Islamophobia in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Queen of Dreams and One Amazing Thing
Ameyce Gohain
11. Revisiting Mythology and Registering Protest in Divakaruni's
The Palace of Illusions
Kalyance Rajan
12. Neo-Oriental Representations: Widows in Chitra Divakaruni's
Arranged Marriage
Parimala Kulkarni
PART IV: IN HER OWN WORDS
13. Between Scylla and Charybdis: What Should a Writer
Write About and How?
Chitra Divakaruni
14. Writing as Spiritual Experience: A Conversation with
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Neila C. Seshachari
15. "Through This Experience I Connect with You": An
Interview with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Robin E. Field, Cynthia A. Leenerts, Summer Pervez
"Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores the fiction of South Asian American writer, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and her aesthetic of interconnectivity and wholeness. Two interviews and an essay by Divakaruni offer indispensable insights into the formal, socio-political, and thematic concerns of this multifaceted artist"-- Provided by publisher.
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