Voice of Women in Chitra Banerjee’s Select Novels: A Study

Name of Author : P.Karthikeyan & Dr. P Vedamuthan

Abstract: Women are portrayed as the most glaring examples of the dangerous discord that is breaking free from societal cohesion. The time when women played the role of manikins in the closed minded society of men is long behind. At the start of the twenty first century, it became clear that women had broken free from the constraints of the system that was centered around men. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, one of the most influential and outspoken Asian American women, has proven her tenacity. She focuses on the diasporic Indian women trapped in two constricting environments. They find themselves in a transitional condition, trying to cut out personalities from their own life. In her stories, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni transforms unimportant women into fresh icons of independence, proving that women are capable of limiting their immediate surroundings. The Indian women have been discussed as strong female subjects who seem to raise difficult questions about their personalities, sense of self, and roles in their families and communities even as they work to rewrite their own local histories and societies.

Keywords : Diaspora, Subjugation, Independence, Women Role in Family and Community

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