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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Singh, Amritjit, editor.

Field, Robin E., 1976- editor.

Najmi, Samina, editor.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee.

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 1956---Interviews.

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 1956-.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 238 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 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

pt. 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 / Elise Auvil

8. Morphed Sense of Longing and Belonging in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Arundhati Roy / Metka Zupancic

pt. III IDENTITY POLITICS AND SOCIAL PROTEST

9. Spicing It Up: Strategic Orientalism and Racial Interconnectedness as Social Curatives in Chitra Banerjee 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 / Atreyee Gohain

11. Revisiting Mythology and Registering Protest in Divakaruni's The Palace of Illusions / Kalyanee Rajan

12. Neo-Oriental Representations: Widows in Chitra Divakaruni's Arranged Marriage / Parimala Kulkarni

pt. 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 / Summer Pervez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Critical perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

ISBN:

9781498556170

1498556175

OCLC:

1277314699