The Portrayal of America in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Arranged Marriage

Abstract

Indian-American poet, a creator of novels, short stories, children's books, an essayist and a community activist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is primarily a literary voice for Indian immigrants and Americans of South Asian descent. Valuing emotion over form and structure in her writing, she frequently writes of loneliness and cultural separation. Through the numerous male and female characters in Arranged Marriage, Divakaruni criticizes qualities that she sees as typically old or Indian and glorifies those that she sees as new or American. The concern of this research study has been to present United States of America in the selected stories of the collection entitled Arranged Marriage, as a haven and a place where all the dreams happen to be realized as it opens numerous possibilities for the immigrant women troubled and shattered by their marriages arranged somehow in India.