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GENDER ROLE REVERSAL IN SELECT NOVELS OF CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI

    2 Author(s):  SUJATHA GIRISH, DR. PAYEL DUTTA CHOWDHURY

Vol -  8, Issue- 11 ,         Page(s) : 38 - 45  (2017 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/CASIRJ

Abstract

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a writer of Indian origin with postcolonial diasporic identity. She has been acknowledged as an Asian American writer with extraordinary writing skills. She writes with great human insight using a myriad of narrative devices. Her characters are painted so realistically that they create an everlasting impression on the readers’ mind. This paper attempts to study and analyze the portrayal of a few prominent male characters in select novels of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni which depict gender role reversal. The works considered for the study are Sister of My Heart,

1. Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Sister of My Heart. London: Black Swan, 1999
2. Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. The Vine of Desire. New York: Anchor Books, 2002
3. Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Queen of Dreams. London: ABACUS, 2004
4. Shetty Vidya and Dr. Payel Dutta Chowdhury. “Patriarchal Hegemony and Gender Roles in Select Revision Texts”. International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities Volume V, Issue X, October 2017.
5. Bharati, C and Kalamani, S. “A Study of Family Relations in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Queen of Dreams”. Impressions, Vol. 6, Issue No. 1, January 2012.
6. Ram, Usha, Lisa Strohschein, and Kirti Gaur. “Gender Socialization: Differences between Male and Female Youth in India and Associations with Mental Health”. International Journal of Population Research, Volume 2014 (2014) 

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