• July to September 2024 Article ID: NSS8780 Impact Factor:8.05 Cite Score:247 Download: 20 DOI: https://doi.org/ View PDf

    Search for Self in Chitra Benerjee Divakaruni’s Literature

      Dr. Vandana Singh
        Research Guide, Madhyanchal Professional University, Bhopal (M.P.)
      Varsha Tiwari
        PhD Scholar, Madhyanchal Professional University, Bhopal (M.P.)
  • Abstract: Self Crisis is the biggest psychological problem nowadays. People want their name should be highlighted at least among few people. Personal Identity is not afrenzy but a factor for confidence and a variable to know about the surrounding. A person is a mere a dead thing in the absence of his or her own self. Self is an inactive phenomenon, active only in the presence of a name. It takes its birth from consciousness’s infinite world. It knows no boundaries. Chitra Benerjee Divakaruni is the lady with the touch of feministic style. Chitralekha Banerjee or Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in Calcutta, India in 1956 in a middle class family of Rajendra Kumar Banerjee and Mrs. Tatini Rajendra Kumar. She is an Indian-born American author, poet, a novelist, a fictionist and a professor pf Writing in Betty and Gene Mc David dept. of creative writing in the University of Houston. Her short story collection, “Arranged Marriage”, won an American Book Award in 1996. Two of her novels (“Sister of My Heart” and “The Mistress of Spices”), including one short story The Word Love were adapted for movies. She talks about the existence of the women and she also cares about their place in society.

        The present paper aims to evaluate modern women’s search for self in the novels of Chitra the most prominent American Indian writer in the context of literary world and attributes of womanhood.

    Keywords:Atmosphere, approaches, conflicts, revival, sufferings, survival, sacrifices and struggles.