“Third World Woman,” Family, and Marriage

In this paper, I review three popular award-winning literary fictions: Samina Ali’s (2004) “Madras on Rainy Days,” Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s (1995) “Arranged Marriage,” and Tanuja Desai Hidier’s (2002) “Born Confused.” I use these fictions as sites of possible ruptures in lived experiences of “se...

The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies

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