Chitra Banerjees fictional universe is a fresh universe in the field of research. She has earnestly taken up in novels the jobs of immigrant adult females peculiarly from South Asiatic states. She has, in her novels, tried to bridge the east-west spread and cultural clang as so set up a kind of harmoniousness between two universes. By destructing the myths and stereotypes, she has urgently tried to unite people. As she breaks down these barriers, she dissolves boundaries between people of different backgrounds, communities, ages, and even different universes. She shows the experiences and battles involved in adult females seeking to happen their ain individualities.
The part of the Indian authors specially adult females authors to the development of the literature is an of import issue and deserves a elaborate question. It seems rather astonishing that her poesy, short narratives every bit good as fictional Hagiographas have received much popular attending yet non a batch of work has been done on the assorted facets of the plants and the personality of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The multidisciplinary attack to the survey of any comprehensive full length analysis. Chitra Banerjee being an Indian adult female author is up to the minute for the reader. Yet non much of critical work has been done on her fiction. The societal deduction and narrative technique in novels have non been looked into so far.
Therefore, there is still ample range of transporting out farther researches certain facets of her, which have non received the attending of the bookmans in the step they truly merit.
The proposed hunt undertaking is chiefly aimed at doing an intensive survey of the novels of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. She is known for her portraitures of immigrant Indian adult females. She writes about household, domestic force, emotional maltreatment, cultural disaffection, and human trafficking. Her plants include a broad assortment of subjects and she directs much concentration to the immigrant experiences of South Asiatic adult females in her plants. Her novels expose the inauspicious conditions of adult females populating in India. Though they besides suggest that life in America is every bit hard as in India because of the contradictory feelings immigrant adult females frequently experience as they are torn between Indian cultural outlooks and American. Divakaruni ‘s chief and evident subjects are love, battle, and clang of civilizations. The present research raises some pertinent inquiry as:
How does her work exemplify us with her voluntary services for a new universe of immigrant adult females?
Does her work reflect the sense of feminine esthesia?
Does she expect through her authorship to fade out boundaries between people of different backgrounds, communities, ages and even different universes?
How does she associate to her ain civilization?
What image of her fatherland does she portray?
How does her fiction rise inquiries on the societal status of adult females?
Like other Indian adult females authors, does she present individuality searcher characters?
Is there any correlativity between her and other Indian adult females author ‘s plants like Anita Desai, Arudhati Roy, Shashi Deshpande, and Jhumpa Lahri, etc?
Is she capable to destruct myths and stereotypes through her Hagiographas?
It is interesting to observe the linguistic communication of Chitra Banerjee ‘s plant. This linguistic communication can merely be found in the actions, feelings, ideas and experiences of the common people. Her linguistic communication enters into the fresh set up its ain particular order within it, and becomes a alone artistic system, which orchestrates the intended subject of the writer.
Divakaruni ‘s work is frequently considered to be quasi autobiographical and the point of position of a female supporter. Even through this research we can show her as an adventurer instead than an translator. Hence, the research will hold a important relevancy.
1.8 Major Hypothesis:
In the proposed survey it has been chiefly hypothesized that:
The work of an creative person, which per Se includes a author, can non be evaluated in isolation but in the broader socio-cultural position of the age he/she flourished in.
Socio-milieu and clip basically lend vastly to determine the ideas and personality of an person and, hence, function as a steering rule to analyze his/her plants.
True to the above, Chitra Banerjee was greatly influenced non merely by her childhood experience in India but besides by her formative experiences in the provinces as a pupil, teacher, member of the consultative board of Pratham in Houston, Maitri in the San Francisco Bay Area and Daya in Houston.
Her novels by and large portray the hapless life of suffering Indian immigrant adult females who doom themselves and others to take dysfunctional lives. Most of this wretchedness comes straight or indirectly at the custodies of Indian work forces, hubbies whom the adult females perceive to be insensitive peasants or worse.
Interpolation of the hideous events that occurred in the US on September 11, 2001 brought a turn in these versions of her narratives.
1.9 Chapter Wise Details of the Proposed Research Work:
Introduction: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The chapter would supply an debut of Chitra Banerjee. An analysis will be made on the bing tendencies and ethos of novels, in add-on to a biographical study of Divakaruni. This chapter will sort the important subject and standard of her Hagiographas plus her favourite not-for-profits and awards. It will further scan her topographic point in Indian literature. It will besides consist the features of the Indian authorship particularly adult females composing with particular mention of her fiction.
Feminine Sensibility of an Immigrant Woman
This chapter will foreground on the point of view of a strong adult female. Divakaruni ‘s composing frequently centres around the lives of immigrant adult females. Immigrant adult females, sense of the work, since she writes about their hurting and their feelings, most of which are autobiographical. She shows the experience of adult females their battles in seeking to happen personal individualities. Womans in peculiar respond to Divakaruni ‘s work because she is working like them ; adult females in love, in trouble, adult females in relationship. Chitra ‘s well-known plants like The Palace of Illusions, The Vine of Desire, Neela: Victory Song, Arrange Marriage, and Sister of my Heart in which their character demonstrates the experiences and battles involved in adult females seeking to happen their ain individuality.
Myth and Stereotypes
The chief intent of this chapter is to hold a treatment on all those myths and stereotypes which are in some manner connected to our lives with the particular mention of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni ‘s work. She normally tried to exemplify that component through her novel that a play is a wire from the concealed universe. There are so many false beliefs which do non hold any world or genuineness, but still they are rooted in the society. Divakaruni, who is an Indian English adult female author, has tried to give us an thought about all those typecast which are related to the lower status of adult female. She largely discusses about the fables which existed in India every bit good as the United States.
Dissolving Boundaries
This chapter will supply an debut to Divakaruni ‘s indispensable subjects. She writes to unite people. She anticipates through her authorship to fade out boundaries between people of different backgrounds, communities, ages and even different universes. She writes about household, domestic force, emotional maltreatment, cultural disaffection and human trafficking. The writer has studied both Eastern and Western literature. She likes to convey the two together in her authorship. She feels this is the lone manner to enrich both traditions. She is a bridge-builder between these two different civilizations, one is her ain fatherland India and another is where she is populating the United States. Therefore, we analyze how Chitra Banerjee promotes healthy household relationship.
Traits of Autobiography in Chitra Banerjee ‘s Plants
This chapter will be an effort to analyze how much of Divakaruni ‘s work is autobiographical. Not merely most of her narratives are set in the Bay country of California, but she besides deals with the immigrant experience, which is an of import subject in today ‘s universe, where the immigrant ‘s voice is seldom heard. Most of Divakaruni ‘s novels give us a sight of the tensenesss, which is experienced by the middle-class adult females due to their sense of disaffection, their dissatisfaction, and their capableness to portion feelings with the household. In order to happen out the consequences we have started from the personal history and later it will transport on with the other points in the class of to turn out autobiographical characters in her plants like- sense of disruption, image of immigrant, the issue of 9/11, her construct of India, the impact of her gramps ‘s influence, attitude towards faith, the characters in Divakaruni ‘s plants, etc.
Narrative Technique
This chapter seeks to supply an accessible debut to identify thoughts about narrative technique with the particular mention of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and an overview of the major attacks to narrative enquiry. It will besides register multiple positions on the survey of Divakaruni ‘s novels. It will supply a synoptic history of this country of probe. So, narrative technique is an attack in which narratives can be viewed as back uping many communicative and cognitive activities. Divakaruni writes about the existent mirror image of cultural immoralities or jobs. The major hypothesis behind the survey is that narrative discourse or duologue is created out of the interaction of the cultural reunions as they are coded in reader ‘s activity and the linguistic communications in discoursing the significances generated by the text.
Decision
The last chapter will be entirely devoted to Chitra Banerjee ‘s part to Indian literature. It will besides throw a light upon their topographic point in the mainstream of Indian authors particularly adult females authors. After all we ca n’t take out nationalism from the bosom of an Indian. These elements and many more are found in copiousness in Chitra Banerjee. All the above chapters will research all the points mentioned in the aims.
