Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, 1956– Arranged marriage: stories / by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Arranged Marriage has eleven stories, all of which focus on different issues resulting from the patriarchy. 2. Arranged Marriage study guide contains a biography of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis of select short stories. Adopted as a text in many college classes, the collection focuses on immigrants from India caught between two worlds. It was on the San Francisco Chronicle bestseller list for five weeks. Arranged Marriage is a collection of eleven short stories written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni who is an Indian-American author and poet. But these memories are wary, fugitive. It won an American Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles award, and a Bay Area Book Reviewers Award and went on to become a bestseller. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Arranged Marriage: Stories. Women immigrants—United States—Social life and customs—Fiction. The stories depict issues relating to the experience of South Asian female migrants. 1. This book was published in 1995 and won the American Book Award. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Arranged Marriage: Stories. — 1st Anchor Books ed. I. Two weeks passed and there was no news of the woman, even though the husband had put a notice in the San Jose Mercury as well as a half-page ad in India West, which he photocopied and taped to neighborhood lampposts.
Arranged Marriage (1995) is Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni‟s debut collection of short stories that won critical acclaim and has received the 1996 American Book Award, the Josephine Miles Award, the Bay Area Book reviewers Award and the Pen Oakland Award.
Title. India—Social life and customs—Fiction. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Arranged Marriage: Stories. 3. Chitra Banerjee-Divakaruni in her book, Arranged Marriage, portrays this entity within India or Indian Diaspora in a variety of manifestations that build and then destroy these stereotypes. East Indian Americans—Social life and customs—Fiction.
Study Guide for Arranged Marriage. That’s our dream (mine more than his, I suspect)—moving out of this two-room apartment where it seems to me if we all breathed in at once, there would be no air left. Arranged Marriage (Anchor Books), Divakaruni’s first collection of stories, was published to great critical acclaim. You have to coax them out of their dark recesses. Like Indian marriages the stories in this collection are tied on many levels. p. cm.