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Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Feminism and Diaspora

By Amritjit Singh (editor) , Samina Najmi (editor) , Robin E. Field (editor)

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Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2022
ISBN
1498556175, 9781498556170
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19578184 bytes)
Pages
276\277
Time added
2022-03-24 03:32:01

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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. 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 In-betweenness, Displacements, and Irreparable Loss in Divakaruni’s Novels Morphed Sense of Identity and Belonging in Oleander Girl The God of Small Things: Tragedies of Impossible Belonging Conclusion Notes Bibliography Part III: Identity Politics and Social Protest Chapter 9: Spicing It Up: Strategic Orientalism and Racial Interconnectedness as Social Curatives in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Oleander Girl Selfhood and Otherness in the Twenty-first Century Strategic Orientalism as a Strategy of Survival in the Century of War Establishing Orientalism: Mysticism, Spirituality, and Otherworldliness Strategic Orientalism in the Imagery of the Oleander Flower Strategic Orientalism as a Connection with the Other Notes Bibliography Chapter 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 Notes Bibliography Chapter 11: Revisiting Mythology and Registering Protest in Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions Notes Bibliography Chapter 12: Neo-Oriental Representations: Widows in Chitra Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage The Widows of Arranged Marriage Stereotypes of Widows and Widowhood Resisting Stereotypes Where Is Liberty? Notes Bibliography Part IV: In Her Own Words Chapter 13: Between Scylla and Charybdis: What Should a Writer Write About, and How? Notes Bibliography Chapter 14: Writing as Spiritual Experience: A Conversation with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chapter 15: “Through This Experience I Connect with You”: An Interview with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Notes Bibliography Major Works by Chitra Divakaruni (listed chronologically) Novels Literature for Children/Young Adults Poetry Collections Short Story Collections Anthologies Select Personal Essays Select Interviews: Print, Video, and Sound Recording (listed chronologically) Select Video Talks (listed chronologically) Select Studies of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (listed alphabetically) Index About the Editors and Contributors Editors Contributors

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