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Expedition for Individuality in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's ‘Queen of Dreams', ‘Vine of Desire' and ‘Sister of My Heart'


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1 Assistant Professor, Department of English Pallavaram, Chennai, India
2 Department of English Pallavaram, Chennai, India
 

Objectives: In this article, we analyze the Expedition for Individuality in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's ‘Queen of Dreams', Vine of Desire' and ‘Sister of My Heart. '.It also highlights how uniquely she has designed the problems of individuality in most of her novels.

Methods: We analyze her motifs consist of the Indian experience, modern American ladies, migration , background, misconception and also the delights as well as difficulties of staying in a modern globe. In the field of Indian writing in English, women writers have proved their eminence in projecting problems of women. The Indian women diasporic writers are more dominant than the other South Asian Women writers.

Findings: Divakaruni portrays her own experiences and other immigrant Indian ladies in her novels. She is one of the most renowned Diaspora writers in the 20th century. She has recorded the bear roaring of impatience and also often outright cope the diverse immigrant experiences of grown-up ladies.

Applications/Improvement: It is a quest for individuality in the works of Divakaruni which highlight the uniqueness and problems related to her individuality in her selected novels.


Keywords

Expedition, Individuality, Family, Relationship, Struggle, Identity.
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  • Expedition for Individuality in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's ‘Queen of Dreams', ‘Vine of Desire' and ‘Sister of My Heart'

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Authors

K. Suresh
Assistant Professor, Department of English Pallavaram, Chennai, India
R. Abeetha
Department of English Pallavaram, Chennai, India
A. A. Jayashree Prabhakar
Department of English Pallavaram, Chennai, India

Abstract


Objectives: In this article, we analyze the Expedition for Individuality in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's ‘Queen of Dreams', Vine of Desire' and ‘Sister of My Heart. '.It also highlights how uniquely she has designed the problems of individuality in most of her novels.

Methods: We analyze her motifs consist of the Indian experience, modern American ladies, migration , background, misconception and also the delights as well as difficulties of staying in a modern globe. In the field of Indian writing in English, women writers have proved their eminence in projecting problems of women. The Indian women diasporic writers are more dominant than the other South Asian Women writers.

Findings: Divakaruni portrays her own experiences and other immigrant Indian ladies in her novels. She is one of the most renowned Diaspora writers in the 20th century. She has recorded the bear roaring of impatience and also often outright cope the diverse immigrant experiences of grown-up ladies.

Applications/Improvement: It is a quest for individuality in the works of Divakaruni which highlight the uniqueness and problems related to her individuality in her selected novels.


Keywords


Expedition, Individuality, Family, Relationship, Struggle, Identity.

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