Critical Perspectives on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Preface
Introduction, Amritjit Singh and Robin E. Field
Part 1: Feminist Politics, Feminine Sensibilities
Chapter 1: Between Home and the World: Situating South Asian American Feminism in the Fiction of Chitra Divakaruni, Nalini Iyer
Chapter 2: Helping Women Help Themselves in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Arranged Marriage and The Unknown Errors of Our Lives, Payel Basu
Chapter 3: Woman to Woman, Sister to Sister: Feminine Connections in Divakaruni's Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart, Leisl King
Chapter 4: "Her Story" in Chitra Divakaruni and Shashi Despande: Re-Reading the Mahabharata from Women's Perspectives, Shaweta Nanda
Part II: Narrating Memory and Belonging
Chapter 5: The Statue of Liberty and the Secret Sharer: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "A Perfect Life", Sau-ling C. Wong
Chapter 6: Memory, Nostalgia, and Finding Oneself in Divakaruni's Fiction, Shashikala Assella
Chapter 7: Transnational Hope in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Short Fiction, Elise Auvil
Chapter 8: Morphed Sense of Longing and Belonging in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Arundhati Roy, Metka Zupancic
Part III: Identity Politics and Social Protest
Chapter 9: Spicing It Up: Strategic Orientalism and Racial Interconnectedness as Social Curatives in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Oleander Girl, Pallavi Rastogi
Chapter 10: "It was a Bad Time for Muslims in America": Representation of Islamophobia in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Queen of Dreams and One Amazing Thing, Atreyee Gohain
Chapter 11: Revisiting Mythology and Registering Protest in Divakaruni's The Palace of Illusions, Kalyanee Rajan
Chapter 12: Neo-Oriental Representations: Widows in Chitra Divakaruni's Arranged Marriage, Parimala Kulkarni
Part IV: In Her Own Words: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chapter 13: Between Scylla and Charybdis: What Should a Writer Write About and How?, Chitra Divakaruni
Chapter 14: Writing as Spiritual Experience: A Conversation with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Neila C. Seshachari
Chapter 15: "Through This Experience I Connect with You": An Interview with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Robin E. Field, Cynthia Leenerts, Summer Pervez
About the Contributors