Name :- Pranav Thorve

Class :- F.Y B.Com ‘B’, Semester :- 2

Roll No. :- 232
Subject:- (1201) Compulsory English
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
 BACKGROUND
• Indian American writer – author of poetry, short
stories, novels, children’s stories .
• Born in Kolkata in 1956, came to US in 1976 for
university studies .
• Completed BA in Wright State University .
• Ph.D. from University of California at Berkeley.
• She is married and have two children , lives in
Houston, Texas
 PUBLICATIONS
• Fictions :
 Arranged Marriage : Stories (1995)
 The Mistress of Spices (1997)
 Sister of My Heart (Novel) (1999)
 The Unknown Errors of our Lives (stories) (2001)
 Neela: Victory Song (Novel) (2002)
 The Vine of Desire (Novel) (2002)
 Queen of Dreams (Novel) (2004)
 The Palace of illusions: A Novel (2008)
 Shadowland: Book Three of the Brotherhood of the Conch (2009)
 One Amazing Thing (2010)
 Oleander GIRL (2013)
• Poetry :
 The Reason for Nasturtiums (1990)
 Black Candle (1991)
 Leaving Yuba City (1997)
 Indian Movie, New Jersey
 WORK
• “She is centrally concerned with giving
shape to South Asian women’s lives in
gendered India and United States
Society” (Aldama).
• Co-founder of ‘MAITRI’ , an
organization that “helps South Asian
women facing domestic violence ,
emotional abuse, cultural alienation ,
human trafficking or family conflict .”
 Indian Movie , New Jersey
• In the poem under discussion here , “Indian
Movie , New Jersey”, Divakaruni creates a setting
in which the moviegoers are able to lose
themselves in fiction, stop thinking (or least
speaking ) of inequities, racism , violence and
entertaining thoughts of the ‘American Dream ’.
• Interesting take on familiar theme of
cinema/television and their role in acculturation .
• Physical space of cinema and role of cinematic
narrative are both important .
THNAK
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