(E)MERGING BORDERS: EXPLORATIONS OF GENDER AND HOME IN CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI’S BEFORE WE VISIT THE GODDESS
(E)MERGING BORDERS: EXPLORATIONS OF GENDER AND HOME IN CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI’S BEFORE WE VISIT THE GODDESS

Summary/Abstract: The notion of borders and their unstated others – ‘home’ and ‘identity’ – find a central place in diasporic discourse and serve as a strand that unifies it, a theme that is explored by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in ‘Before We Visit The Goddess’. My paper would engage with the novel-in-stories as an attempt at questioning and crossing these borders, in order to seek a home that may be transitory, in its physical manifestation, but is nevertheless one that seeks to anchor the mind and thereby liberate the individual from the shackles that have ironically moved beyond societal constrictions to becoming personal ones.

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