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International Journal of Trends in Emerging Research and Development, 2025;3(6):133-139

A Study on Women Novelists of the Indian Diaspora

Author : Amita Yadav and Dr. Seema

Abstract

This research tries to comprehend the works of the different Indian women diaspora novelists in the context of diaspora fiction. In addition to introducing the chosen authors for the thesis-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Bharati Mukherjee, and Jhumpa Lahiri-the chapter considers authors such as Meena Alexander, Kiran Desai, Uma Parameswaran, Sujata Bhatt, and Anita Rau Badami. The different aspects of postcolonial feminism are covered in this chapter, along with the feminist ideas advanced by thinkers such as Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, and Simone de Beauvoir. These theories are then examined in the context of the novels written by Indian diaspora women novelists. Women are subjected to more constraints, limitations, and expectations since the dominant segments of society determine gender characteristics, which frequently make them patriarchal in nature. But men are also subject to a different set of constraints, limitations, and expectations because of their gender. According to Hetschel Tanja et al. (Web), men are supposed to be the breadwinners, manly, forceful, intellectual, and emotionally stable. These claims made about all genders create a theatrical environment in which each person must act out the roles that have been given to them. Inequalities caused by gender are hierarchical and overlap with other social and economic disparities.

Keywords

Women, Novelists, Indian, Diaspora, Economic Disparities