• R. RANIREVATHI

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni one of the most exceptional writers of the Indian Diaspora, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has developed the ‘immigrant sensibility’ as the major theme in her fiction. As she has settled in The United States, she has experienced first hand the difference between Indian culture and life style in the U.S.A. Her subject is the stories of Indians who migrate from their motherland to The United States for varied reasons such as career, education, business and so on. Some of Banerjee major works like Sister of My Heart, The Vine of Desire, Queen of Dreams, Mistress of Spices and Arranged Marriage reflect the expectation, trust, ambition and Frustrations of the immigrants in the United States. While people migrate from one country to another , many changes occur in their life. Sister of My Heart dealt with the difficulties faced by women and the manners in which they overcome from their Problems and difficulties. The Vine of Desire is a Sequel to Sister of My Heart Anju and Sudha reunite after a year of living separate lives. Afflicted respectively by guilt and bitter envy, Sudha and Anju individually grapple with both their inner pain and the outside pressures of furious, impersonal city life in America as they journey towards independence. Mistress of Spices deals with an immigrant woman Tilo, with her extraordinary sense for spices bears an inherent power to work magic with spices. She attempts not only to assimilate the new culture of her settled nation America but also to retain her own cultural identity by recreating a strong self perception. In Queen of Dreams Mrs.Gupta like Tilo possess an inherent power to interpret dreams and also strives to define her self identity in culturally contrast world.

Migration, rootlessness , culture conflict, self identity

"PROBLEMS OF EXPATRIATION FOR WOMEN: A STUDY OF CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI’S SELECT NOVELS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.124-130, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBA06033.pdf

"PROBLEMS OF EXPATRIATION FOR WOMEN: A STUDY OF CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI’S SELECT NOVELS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp124-130, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBA06033.pdf