Critical perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni : feminism and diaspora / edited by Amritjit Singh, Robin E. Field and Samina Najmi

Singh, Amritjit *1945-* [HerausgeberIn] ; Field, Robin E. *1976-* [HerausgeberIn] ; Najmi, Samina, 1963- [HerausgeberIn]

Englisch

Lanham : Lexington Books, 2022

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Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe- Singh, Amritjit: Critical perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. - Lanham : Lexington Books, 2022. - pages cm

978-1-4985-5618-7

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-1-4985-5617-0 (Druckausgabe)

*Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee *1956-*

*Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee,-1956--Criticism and interpretation

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Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 813.54

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.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Coming to America: An Immigrant Writer's Journey -- Bridging Boundaries, Creating Connections -- Connecting Feminism and Diaspora -- The Essays and Interviews -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I: Feminist Politics, Feminine Sensibilities -- Chapter 1: Between Home and the World: Situating South Asian American Feminism in the Fiction of Chitra Divakaruni -- Home as Domestic Space and National Site of Belonging -- 9/11 and South Asian Americans -- Interracial Relationships -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Helping Women Help Themselves in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Arranged Marriage and The Unknown Errors of Our Lives -- Understanding Domestic Violence in the United States and India -- Writing Domestic Violence -- Into Empowerment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Woman to Woman, Sister to Sister: Feminine Connections in Divakaruni's Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: "Her Story" in Chitra Divakaruni and Shashi Deshpande: Re-Reading the Mahabharata from Women's Perspectives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II: Narrating Memory and Belonging -- Chapter 5: The Statue of Liberty and the Secret Sharer: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "A Perfect Life"1 -- The Bubble and the World Next Door -- The Statue of Liberty -- The Statue of Liberty "Asianized" -- The Huddled Secret Sharer -- "A Perfect Life" Twenty Years Later -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Memory, Nostalgia, and Finding Oneself in Divakaruni's Fiction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Transnational Hope in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Short Fiction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Morphed Sense of Longing and Belonging in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Arundhati Roy.

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