Transcultural Encounters in Divakaruni’s Before We Visit the Goddess.

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Abstract: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian American writer who focuses on identity crisis, globalization, transculturalism, transnationalism and rootlessness of the immigrants. Divakaruni, also being an immigrant, was caught between two cultures. Cultural conflicts, identity crisis and searching for roots are important themes in her works. Divakaruni’s fictions depict the complexities of the transcultural identities, especially of the second generation immigrants and the life of the South Asian immigrant women settled in the United States of America. The second generation immigrants here refer to the children of Indian expatriates who are born in America. Brar comments about these second generation immigrants as

Keywords : Before We Visit the Goddess is a novel

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