LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:1 January 2018
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Immigration or Liberation:
A Comparative Study of Indian and Immigrant Indian Women in the Select Stories from
Arranged Marriage by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

G. Rajeswari, Research Scholar


Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Short Stories

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, Arranged Marriage won an American Book Award in 1995, and two of her novels The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart as well as a short story The Word Love were adapted into films. Mistress of Spices was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Currently, Sister of My Heart, Oleander Girl, Palace of Illusions, and One Amazing Thing are being produced as movies or TV serials.

Divakaruni's works are largely set in India and in the United States, and often focus on the experiences of South Asian immigrants. She writes for children as well as adults and has published novels in multiple genres, including realistic fiction, historical fiction, fiction, dealing with magical realism, myth and fantasy.

The present study is intended to compare and contrast the women characters of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni from her collection of short stories and prove that women in India are crippled in the name of tradition and culture, whereas immigrant women of Indian origin are free to liberate themselves from the clutches of these beliefs and customs simply because they are away from India. In India women are denied the opportunities and resources that are normally accessible to members of a society in other countries in the name of culture and tradition. This blocks their access to various rights which are essential to social integration within a particular society.

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Mrs. G. Rajeswari, Research Scholar
Assistant Professor of English
Government College for Women (Autonomous)
Kumbakonam
Tamilnadu
India
rajig1968@gmail.com

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