INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT International Peer Reviewed & Refereed Journals, Open Access Journal ISSN Approved Journal No: 2456-4184 | Impact factor: 8.76 | ESTD Year: 2016
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Diasporic writer Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni who is of Indian Origin from West Bengal, migrated to America. Though settled down in the foreign land, she couldn’t forget her roots of native village she has spent life there. This native connection inspired her to become a writer. Divakaruni’s visit to Kolkata as a place of her olden roots with her American husband fills her mind with new refreshing memories. The Palace of Illusions reflects of the social conditioning of a woman regarding her position and the cultural paradigms in which she is destined to recreate new identity challenging the patriarchal norms of Dwapara Yuga. Divakaruni talks of social setup and norms in which a woman to negotiate her space created through undergoing agency. This agency is propelled by the patriarchal norms from time to time and woman has to fit herself in that social cage. The literary discourse plays significant role in changing these assignments keeping in mind the demand of the time. Divakaruni, in her text, advocates that migration in any form for woman is significant which make her feel new experience as well as liberating her from tradition, culture and social scripts. Through this paper. I have tried to abolish the olden and traditional spaces of inherited social constructs and establishing the moulded forms in new ideological setup. Jasbir Jain posits the condition of a woman who wants to be diasporic, wishes to renegotiate both the cultures simultaneously primarily because it is not possible to relate to the new reality without altering inherited constructs. You simply cannot relocate them as they are (Jasbir Jain, Writing Women Across Cultures, 141).
Keywords:
Cultural Scripts, Patriarchy, Myth, History, Tradition, Modernity, Mahabharata, Political Agency.
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"Reverberation of the Cultural Scripts in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions", International Journal of Novel Research and Development (www.ijnrd.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.8, Issue 7, page no.e712-e715, July-2023, Available :http://www.ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2307485.pdf
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