Analysis Of Arra Marriage By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The landscape of contemporary literature has been influenced by the rising tide of globalization; texts are now crossing the borders of nations and cultures as newly emerging authors express myriad voices of those once considered the subaltern. At the crest of this new literary wave is a new generation of South Asian Female writers who have begun to make their unique mark upon the world of the novel. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is one of such novelists she has emerged as a ground-breaking novelist in the genre of South Asian Diasporic literature.

Divakaruni’s account of the experience of the Diaspora and its effects upon women not only provide the readers with insight into the lives of 1.5 million South Asians who reside in the United States, but also presents a model with which one can better understand the processes through which minority identities are constructed. Though South Asians comprise such a significant (and ever-increasing) portion of the U.S population, still they have not received their fair share of focused attention. The realm of South Asian diasporic literatures though now more prevalent than ever before, is still largely undiscovered in its talents and contents. The experience of the south Asian immigrant woman

The underlying theme of her short story collection ‘Arranged Marriage’ is as the name suggests marital relationships as they are seen in South Asian communities where by and large the practice is that parents arrange marriages of their children. However, immigration has widened the mental horizons of the people from the east, and Divakaruni too questions this practice through these stories. After their exposure to the west in various ways example working outside the home, their increased independence, particularly in decision making, etc., makes them respond differently to the marital situation as