Discovering the cultural Mosaic and Anxiety in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s One Amazing Thing

Authors

  • M. Reema Safana PG & Research Department of English, Jamal Mohamed College (Autonomous),Tiruchirappalli – 620020
  • B. Rashma PG & Research Department of English, Jamal Mohamed College (Autonomous),Tiruchirappalli – 620020

Keywords:

Psyche, Diaspora, Displacement, Melancholy, Expatriate, Migration, Nostalgia.

Abstract

Chitra banerjee Divakaruni is an Indo-American writer. She is one of the creative and most singnificant diasporic writer in English Literature. Her novels explore’s radial feminism, life of commoners and female psyche. Chitra banerjee gives out themes like migration, nostalgia ,expatriate. One Amazing Thing is novel which deals with human psychology and their melancholy. "One Amazing Thing" by Chitra Banerjee is a novel that stretch forth against the setting of a life-transforming earthquake,In which group of peoples trapped in a distinct  place ofthe basement of an Indian consulate.This novel address a sum of people from different environment and with different perception of human. The characters are undo their appealing incidents. ‘’One Amazing Thing’’ It also fascinates readers with its investigation human psyche  based on their incidents and the intense moments that construct our lives. No character exceed the  another and this made the journey of everyone universal regardless of cultural difference. Divakaruni gives prefect picture of human psychology.

References

Banerjee, Chitra Divakaruni. One Amazing Thing. New Delhi: Penguin Books India Limited, 2010. Print.

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Dhanam K.S. “Negotiation with the New Culture: A Study of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‘s The Mistress of Spices”, Critical essays on Diasporic Writings. Ed. Dr. K. Balachandran. New Delhi: Arise Publishers, 2000. Print

Vega-González, Susana. "Negotiating Boundaries in Divakaruni‘s The Mistress of Spices and Naylor's Mama Day." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 5.2 (2003)

Published

2024-09-13

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 3 (2024): Jamal Academic Research Journal-An Interdisciplinary (JARJ)

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