Female characters in Chitra Divakaruni My presentation MA Semester III Department of English BKNMU Junagadh

1. Females in the Short stories of
Chitra Divakaruni
• Disha P Kariya
• MA Semester 3
• Roll No. 5
• E 115B Indian English Literature
• Department of English
• BKNMU Junagadh

2. Chitra Divakaruni

3. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956)
An Indian American author
She wrote poetries, short stories, novels, fantasy, magical
realism, etc.
American Book Award for her famous short story
collection Arranged Marriage in 1995

4. Arranged Marriage

5. Collection of Short stories
Literary Elements:
Post colonialism
Diaspora elements
Women Empowerment

6. Selected Short stories
Clothes
Silver Pavement and Golden Roofs
A Perfect Life

7. Female Characters
Sumita
Meera
Jayanti
Pratima

8. Female as a victim in Patriarchal Society
Identity Crisis
Importance of clothes in the life of a female

9. Dreamland of female
Most Emotional human being
Transformation of life

10. Women Empowerment not Feminism

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