Abstract
Book Review: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, ‘Arranged Marriage Stories’, Anchor, 1996, 320p, ISBN-13: 978-0385483506 Reviewed by Niranjana G, Research Scholar, VIT Chennai, Bhuvaneswari, Assistant Professor, VIT Chennai
Highlights
Arranged Marriage Stories (1996) acts as the mirror to Indian American women’s way of life during the last decades of the twentieth century and it is an exploration of the raising feminist consciousness among the immigrant women entangled in the web of dual identities
In the short story, ‘clothes’, the author foregrounds clothes as a metaphor of identity for a woman who hailed from a village and got married to an American Indian
She realized that she did not want to spend the rest of her life as an invalid under the veil and the very color of the widow’s attire kindled her consciousness and provoked her to seek economic independence which will liberate her from the cultural constraints of her community
Summary
Arranged Marriage Stories (1996) acts as the mirror to Indian American women’s way of life during the last decades of the twentieth century and it is an exploration of the raising feminist consciousness among the immigrant women entangled in the web of dual identities. In the short story ‘The Bats’, the bats act as a metaphor for the mother. In the short story, ‘clothes’, the author foregrounds clothes as a metaphor of identity for a woman who hailed from a village and got married to an American Indian. The clothes act as the identity in the realm of gender.
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