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Problem of Acculturation in Chitra Banerjeee Divakaruni’s
Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter

Mrs. G. Rajeswari


Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni belongs to the young Indian group of writers that appeared on the literary panaroma of Indian diasporic writing. She is a distinct and well established South Asian writer with a post-colonial diasporic identity after Salman Rushidie. She has been accepted as an Asian American writer as she has spent more time outside India than in it. Living with a hybrid identity and writing partially autobiographical works, she has focused on the issues of immigrants especially Indian immigrants to America which the other diasporic writers have not dealt with in detail in their works. Her venture into serious poetry writing began after her grandfather’s death in her ancestral village in India. She told Roxanne Farmanfarmaian in Publishers Weekly, “Poetry was closest to my psyche. Poetry focuses on the moment, on the image, and relies on image to express meaning. That was very important to me, that kind of crystallization, that kind of intensity in a small space”. She is an insatiable writer and her works have been published in leading literary magazines the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker. Her works have been translated into many European languages like Dutch, Hebrew, Portuguese, Danish and German. And her literary works include novels, short story collections and poems.

Focus of This Paper

The paper titled “Cross-cultural Conflicts in Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter” by Chitra Banerjeee Divakaruni attempts to explore cross-cultural conflicts of the Indian immigrants’ dependents especially their parents in America. Many articles are available on the works of Chitra Banerjeee Divakaruni and most of them probe into Diasporic issues like alienation, identity crisis, rootlessness, and so on. But very little is said about the clash between Indian and American cultures that the Indian immigrants face in America. It is one of the prominent motifs of Divakaruni’s writings. The purpose of this paper is to study the short story Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter to establish the fact that cultural conflict is one of the most pre dominant themes of Diasporic literature and that it has yet not been fully explored with regard to Divakaruni’s works. By culture we mean the patterns of thought and behaviour of people. Culture includes values, beliefs, rules of conduct, and patterns of social, political and economic organization. These are passed on from one generation to the next by formal as well as informal processes. Culture consists of the ways in which we think and act as members of a society.

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Mrs. G. Rajeswari
Assistant Professor of English
Government College for Women (Auatonomous)
Kumbakonam
Tamilnadu
India
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