Salaam Feminism a Feminist Rereading of the Failure of Female Emancipation in Select Works of Bharati Mukherjee Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Jhumpa Lahiri and Kavita Daswani

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newline Salaam, Feminism?: A Feminist Rereading of the Failure of Female Emancipation in select newlineWorks of Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Kavita newlineDaswani , through its span of 9 chapters including Introduction (Chapter 1) and newline Conclusion (Chapter 9) tries to offer an alternative feminist rereading of four novels by newlinethe (late) University of California (Berkeley) Professor, Bharati Mukherjee (1940-2017) newline(which are: Jasmine, 1989; The Holder of the World, 1993; Desirable Daughters, 2002; and, newlineThe Tree Bride, 2004), four novels by the University of Houston-Professor Chitra Banerjee newlineDivakaruni s (b. 1956) (that is, The Mistress of Spices, 1997; Sister of My Heart, 1999; The newlineVine of Desire, 2002; and, One Amazing Thing, 2010); the Princeton University-Professor newlineJhumpa Lahiri s two short-story-collections Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and newlineUnaccustomed Earth (2009), and two novels, The Namesake (2003) and The Lowland (2013); newlineand the Los Angeles-based journalist Kavita Daswani s four novels, For Matrimonial newlinePurposes (2003), The Village Bride of Beverly Hills (2004), Salaam, Paris (2006), and newlineLovetorn (2012). newlineThese four female Indian diasporic novelists and their stated four publications have been newlinechosen for separate study because whenever critical approaches to the gamut of the Indian newlinefemale diasporic authors are mentioned, these four authors seem to be specifically refereed to newlineand cited, including their four publications (of each of the authors) mentioned here. newlineMoreover, these four female authors are bound by their common country of immigration: the newlineU.S.A. And these authors have steadfastly dealt with different problems of immigrant Indian newlinewomen in their various fictional publications. newlineIt is not that there are no theses available on the writings of the female Indian diasporic newlineauthors. In fact, other than eco-feminism and L.G.B.T.-issues, Indian diasporic writing is an newlineextremely popular area of research in 21st-century Indian universities. What exceptionalises newlinethe present