Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Amritjit Singh; Robin E. Field; Samina Najmi

doi:10.5771/9781498556187

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Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Feminism and Diaspora offers insights into Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s provocative and popular fiction. In their engaging and comprehensive introduction, editors Amritjit Singh and Robin Field explore how Divakaruni’s short stories and novels have been shaped by her own struggles as a new immigrant and by the influences she imbibed from academic mentors and feminist writers of color. Twelve critical essays by both aspiring and experienced scholars explore Divakaruni's aesthetic of interconnectivity and wholeness as she links generations, races, ethnicities, and nations in her depictions of the diversity of religious and ethnic affiliations within the Indian diaspora. The contributors offer a range of critical perspectives on Divakaruni’s growth as a novelist of historical, mythic, and political motifs. The volume includes two extended interviews with Divakaruni, offering insights into her personal inspirations and social concerns, while also revealing her deep affection for South Asian communities, as well as an essay by Divakaruni herself—a candid expression of her artistic independence in response to the didactic expectations of her many South Asian readers.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-5617-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-5618-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 238
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Epigraph No access
3. Contents No access
4. Preface No access
5. 1. Coming to America: An Immigrant Writer’s Journey No access
  2. Bridging Boundaries, Creating Connections No access
  3. Connecting Feminism and Diaspora No access
  4. The Essays and Interviews No access
  5. Notes No access
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1. 1. Home as Domestic Space and National Site of Belonging No access
  2. 9/11 and South Asian Americans No access
  3. Interracial Relationships No access
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2. 1. Understanding Domestic Violence in the United States and India No access
  2. Writing Domestic Violence No access
  3. Into Empowerment No access
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1. 1. The Bubble and the World Next Door No access
  2. The Statue of Liberty No access
  3. The Statue of Liberty “Asianized” No access
  4. The Huddled Secret Sharer No access
  5. “A Perfect Life” Twenty Years Later No access
  6. Acknowledgments No access
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4. 1. In-betweenness, Displacements, and Irreparable Loss in Divakaruni’s Novels No access
  2. Morphed Sense of Identity and Belonging in Oleander Girl No access
  3. The God of Small Things: Tragedies of Impossible Belonging No access
  4. Conclusion No access
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1. 1. Selfhood and Otherness in the Twenty-first Century No access
  2. Strategic Orientalism as a Strategy of Survival in the Century of War No access
  3. Establishing Orientalism: Mysticism, Spirituality, and Otherworldliness No access
  4. Strategic Orientalism in the Imagery of the Oleander Flower No access
  5. Strategic Orientalism as a Connection with the Other No access
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4. 1. The Widows of Arranged Marriage No access
  2. Stereotypes of Widows and Widowhood No access
  3. Resisting Stereotypes No access
  4. Where Is Liberty? No access
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2. Chapter 14: Writing as Spiritual Experience: A Conversation with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni No access
3. 1. Notes No access
1. 1. Novels No access
  2. Literature for Children/Young Adults No access
  3. Poetry Collections No access
  4. Short Story Collections No access
  5. Anthologies No access
  6. Select Personal Essays No access
  7. Select Interviews: Print, Video, and Sound Recording (listed chronologically) No access
  8. Select Video Talks (listed chronologically) No access
  9. Select Studies of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (listed alphabetically) No access
Index No access Pages 225 - 232
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2. Contributors No access