Abstract: African-American women have a long history of subjugation on the various levels. This race was colonized on the grounds of racism; where Black women were triply marginalized due to race, gender, and class. On the similar grounds, Asian cultures, and Asian women also fought the issue of patriarchy. It was only in the few recent years that they found their foothold in the area of literature and writing at the forefront. The objective of this research paper is to compare the two modern works authored by Indian-American women; Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine (1989) and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Sister of My Heart (1999). It draws parallels on the women characters portrayed in these novels. This paper includes the theory of comparative literature which is the basic theory on the lines of which above mentioned works are analysed. These works also call for the introduction to the genre of Diaspora literature which is the common binding agent of the works along with the fact of having women writers of Indian origin. The aim is to recognize the sensibilities of both the authors and distinguish the features of their respective popular works of fiction.
Keywords: Comparative Literature, Diaspora, Touchers, Ambition, Subjugation.
Title: A Comparative Study of Female Protagonists in Jasmine and Sister of My Heart
Author: Dr. Jainee Shah
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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