Includes bibliographical references (pages 217 - 224) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 15. "Through This Experience I Connect with You": An Interview with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni / 1. Between Home and the World: Situating South Asian American Feminism in the Fiction of Chitra Divakaruni / Summer Pervez. 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.
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.
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