LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:12 December 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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Sense of Uprootedness in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s
Queen of Dreams

P. Selva Mari, M.A., M.Phil.


Abstract

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is one of the remarkable novelists in Indian Writing in English. Divakaruni is a South Asian woman writer who deals with various oppressive issues confronted by women. She is one of the founders of Maitri, which is a free, confidential, referral non-profit organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area that primarily helps families from South Asia facing domestic violence, emotional abuse, cultural alienation and human trafficking and continues to serve on the advisory board. The novel Queen of Dreams clearly brings out the multifaceted problem of identity and rootlessness through her characters. The protagonists in Queen of Dreams have constant identity crisis and suffer from exile, alienation and embarrassment largely born of cultural prejudices throughout the novel.

Keywords: Identity crisis, Alienation, Domestic violence, Emotional abuse, Oppression of women

Introduction

Indian writing in English refers to the body of writers in India who write in the English language and whose mother tongue is usually one of the numerous languages in India. Indian writing in English means the projection of the cultural patterns of India. Their works reflect the political, economic and spiritual elements that constitute the mind of India. The Indian English Fiction has had a brilliant growth during the dawn of the millennium year and the writing in all genres of literature has gained momentum, particularly the Indian English novelists, R. K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand and others are some of the notable writers of Indian writing in English who promoted the conventional method of writing.

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P. Selva Mari, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor
SMS College of Arts and Science
Kallamanaickerpatti 626131
Sivakasi
Tamilnadu
India
massmani84890@gmail.com
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