LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:2 February 2018
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Disolcation, Geographical and Emotional in
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage

R. Phriyanga Dhevi, M.Phil. English


Abstract

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award winning author, born in Calcutta, who spent the first nineteenth years of her life in India. Divakaruni has won a readership for her poetry and fiction of immigrant life in the US. Her works take us into the female psyche and interruption through real forms of violence. Her spatial and geographical boundary is always the immigrants to the US. Divakaruni’s works capture the female caught in the closed-up Indian society who once crossing the Lashman Rekha of marriage is deemed to be a passive victim suffering in silence, both at homeland abroad. Her woman character becomes the centre for stories of dislocation, geographical and emotional recollected narratives of mothers and daughters and narratives of women who accept change.

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Arranged Marriage

The book Arranged Marriage consists of eleven stories. Majority of these stories discuss Indian immigrants who reside in the United States. All the stories have been narrated from the first person singular point of view. Chitra depicts the experiences of immigrant professional people. Even women characters experience and fall victim in the hands of tug of war between two cultures. All of them are in search of individual identity.

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R. Phriyanga Dhevi, M.Phil. English
Sri AdichunchanagiriWomen’s College
Cumbum 625516
Tamilnadu
India
phriyangathiru@gmail.com

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