FEAR, SEXUALITY, AND LIBERATION: PURSUIT OF THE SUBLIME IN CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI’S MISTRESS OF SPICES
FEAR, SEXUALITY, AND LIBERATION: PURSUIT OF THE SUBLIME IN CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI’S MISTRESS OF SPICES
Author(s): Shreya BeraSubject(s): Aesthetics, Other Language Literature, American Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: diaspora; Indian aesthetics; Indian American literature; sublime;
Summary/Abstract: The paper explores the diasporic quest of fear, sexuality, and liberation under the renegotiation of the sublime experience. To evince the tumultuous integration of Indians into transnational communities, the realisation of sublime experiences is to be traced through Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel Mistress of Spices (1997). The process of struggle, abandonment and eventual transcendence from traditional models will be compared against the framework of a hostile and abject mythical environment. Propositions of Edmund Burke, Bharata, and Bonnie Mann will be referred to in the pursuit of the sublime.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 27/2021
- Issue No: 27
- Page Range: 213-220
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English