| Subject: | Linguistics (English) |
| Title: | Major Themes in The Works of Chitra Bannerji Divakaruni |
| Author(s): | Dr. Manoj Kumar Chaturvedi |
| Published on: | 30th May 2025 |
| Published by: | Lyceum India |
| Name of the Journal: | Lyceum India Journal of Social Sciences |
| ISSN/E-ISSN: | 3048-6513 |
| Volume & Issue: | Volume: 2, Issue: 1 |
| Pages: | 75-81 |
| Original DOI (if any): | 10.5281/zenodo.16754900 |
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| Abstract: | Chitra Bannerji Divakaruni is an Indo – American writer of great repute. She is a fine messenger of Diasporic sensibility felt by her during her migrant from India to America. She deals with the subject of Diasporic immigrant experience and highlighting the condition of women protagonist in her works who are living between two cultures. Her experience regarding the said theme occupies a great place in her works. Though several writers of Indian background like Sashidesh Pandey, Bharti Mukherji and Nayantara Sehgal, who somehow or with their personal reasons left India their motherland and stayed in the foreign land felt deeply the experience of immigrant experience. These writers have also worked. But the experience shared by Chitra Bannerji Divakaruni in her works is unique and different in analysing and elaborating the things in her own way. Before going over the works of Chitra Bannerji what depict her to be a diasporic writer dealing with women who are living in two cultures; let us have a glimpse of the theme and definition. |
| Keywords: | Emigrant Experience, Historical Dilemma, Patriarchal System |
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