Book Details

Negotiating Gender and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Indo-American Women’s Fiction studies the selected works of Bharati Mukherjee and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The book focuses on the lives and experiences of Indian women in India and America. It explores gender, culture, identity, migration, and displacement. It also discusses family, marriage, patriarchy, cultural conflict, and the search for freedom and identity. The book shows how women face social and cultural challenges in both Indian and American societies. It examines how they adjust to new cultures while trying to retain their cultural roots. It also explores the problems of cultural alienation, loneliness, and identity crisis. At the same time, it highlights women’s courage, resistance, and efforts to create their own identities. These diasporic women writers have voiced the plight of women and challenged the socio-cultural constraints which limit women’s freedom. The book also examines the narrative techniques used by both writers. It will be useful to students, teachers, researchers, and readers interested in Indian English literature, women’s writing, diaspora, and postcolonial studies.