Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (eBook)

Feminism and Diaspora

Robin E. Field, Samina Najmi, Amritjit Singh (Herausgeber)

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2022
278 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5618-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Feminism and Diaspora offers insights into Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's provocative and popular fiction. In their engaging and comprehensive introduction, editors Amritjit Singh and Robin Field explore how Divakaruni's short stories and novels have been shaped by her own struggles as a new immigrant and by the influences she imbibed from academic mentors and feminist writers of color. Twelve critical essays by both aspiring and experienced scholars explore Divakarunis aesthetic of interconnectivity and wholeness as she links generations, races, ethnicities, and nations in her depictions of the diversity of religious and ethnic affiliations within the Indian diaspora. The contributors offer a range of critical perspectives on Divakaruni's growth as a novelist of historical, mythic, and political motifs. The volume includes two extended interviews with Divakaruni, offering insights into her personal inspirations and social concerns, while also revealing her deep affection for South Asian communities, as well as an essay by Divakaruni herselfa candid expression of her artistic independence in response to the didactic expectations of her many South Asian readers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.2.2022
• Co-Autor: S. M. Assella, Cynthia Leenerts, Shaweta Nanda, Kalyanee Rajan, Pallavi Rastogi, Neila Seshachari, Summer Pervez Sultan, Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, Metka Zupancic, Elise Auvil, Payel Basu, Chitra Divakaruni, Robin E. Field, Atreyee Gohain, Nalini Iyer, Liesl King, Parimala Kulkarni
• Zusatzinfo: 2 Illustrations including: - 2 Halftones, Color including Color Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Asian American Literature • Chitra Divakaruni • Indian diaspora • race and ethnicity • South Asian Literature
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-5618-3 / 1498556183
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-5618-7 / 9781498556187