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Author:   Amritjit Singh ,  Robin E. Field ,  Samina Najmi ,  S. M. Assella
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.581kg
ISBN:  

9781498556170

ISBN 10:   1498556175
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   15 February 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction, Amritjit Singh and Robin E. Field Part 1: Feminist Politics, Feminine Sensibilities Chapter 1: Between Home and the World: Situating South Asian American Feminism in the Fiction of Chitra Divakaruni, Nalini Iyer Chapter 2: Helping Women Help Themselves in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage and The Unknown Errors of Our Lives, Payel Basu Chapter 3: Woman to Woman, Sister to Sister: Feminine Connections in Divakaruni’s Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart, Leisl King Chapter 4: “Her Story” in Chitra Divakaruni and Shashi Despande: Re-Reading the Mahabharata from Women’s Perspectives, Shaweta Nanda Part II: Narrating Memory and Belonging Chapter 5: The Statue of Liberty and the Secret Sharer: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s “A Perfect Life”, Sau-ling C. Wong Chapter 6: Memory, Nostalgia, and Finding Oneself in Divakaruni’s Fiction, Shashikala Assella Chapter 7: Transnational Hope in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Short Fiction, Elise Auvil Chapter 8: Morphed Sense of Longing and Belonging in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Arundhati Roy, Metka Zupančič Part III: Identity Politics and Social Protest Chapter 9: Spicing It Up: Strategic Orientalism and Racial Interconnectedness as Social Curatives in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Oleander Girl, Pallavi Rastogi Chapter 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 Chapter 11: Revisiting Mythology and Registering Protest in Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions, Kalyanee Rajan Chapter 12: Neo-Oriental Representations: Widows in Chitra Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage, Parimala Kulkarni Part IV: In Her Own Words: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chapter 13: Between Scylla and Charybdis: What Should a Writer Write About and How?, Chitra Divakaruni Chapter 14: Writing as Spiritual Experience: A Conversation with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Neila C. Seshachari Chapter 15: “Through This Experience I Connect with You”: An Interview with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Robin E. Field, Cynthia Leenerts, Summer Pervez About the Contributors

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It is so fitting that a book about the work of an author who has written so much and impacted so many fields should be the work of so many contributors and include such a variety of content. This is an invaluable collection for scholars and teachers interested in Divakaruni's oeuvre vis-a-vis diasporic studies, Asian American literature, and women's studies, to name just a few.--Noelle Brada-Williams, San Jose State University

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Amritjit Singh is Langston Hughes professor emeritus of English and African American studies at Ohio University. Robin E. Field is professor of English at King’s College. Samina Najmi is professor of English at California State University, Fresno.

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