Sufferings of South Asian Immigrant Women’s in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s “Sister of My Heart”

Abstract

This research paper focuses on the sufferings of South Asian immigrant women’s in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s “Sister Of My Heart.” Divakaruni is a South Asian diasporic poet, short story writer, novelist, and essayist. Divakaruni’s works express her own country, legends folktale, her birth land with all its shades of caste and class segregation, the eye-catching of rich Bengali cuisine, customs, marriage and family and in a way how an insider’s and outsider’s viewed with the truth. Divakaruni’s works relate two different types of worlds, particularly about Indo-American struggling for peace in America. Her nostalgia for birth land mingled with fear in the freakish land makes her difficult to adjust to the new environment. She longs for the shaping of diaspora existence by implicating themselves in ethnic-culture problems. This paper explores the South Asian immigrants’ women’s experiences and looking back at tradition and society in the novel Divakaruni’s “Sister Of My Heart” (1999).