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Aadi Publications Acculturation of the Immigrant Self in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Short Stories by Ranjana Agarwal
This book presents major diasporic issues from the global perspective in the short stories of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. She, being an immigrant herself, has probed excellently into the inner workings of the minds of the immigrant characters who are victimized by the biased environment of the host country. It also explores some important concerns of expatriate writing with the theoretical framework of diaspora, post-colonialism and multi-culturalism. Immigrant acculturation is a continual and a gradual process which can provide an aid in the course of globalization. The book comprehensively probes into the dilemma of the diaspora, marginal status of immigrants and their feeling of alienation; but it brings back their urge to continue, to integrate and to assimilate that help them in defining their own roads of adaptation.