Status of Women in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Select Novels

Abstract

The modern women writers now-a-days occupy a strong position in literature. Women are integral part of civilization. No society or country can ever progress without an active participation of women in its overall development. Although the place of women in society has differed from culture to culture and from age to age yet one has never been considered equal to men.

Bharathi Mukherjee, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Meena Alexander, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Shoba De, Manjula Padmanaban, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Meera Syal are the eminent women novelists in the modern literature era. Their novels deal with the position of women in society. Most of these writers have given expression to their feelings in the form of fiction. They depicted the man-woman relationship and the psychological suffering of the frustrated housewife.