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| Article Name : | | | DIVAKARUNI'S THE BATS AND THE ULTRASOUND: ISSUES OF GENDER, IDENTITY, CULTURE AND POLITICS | | Author Name : | | | Darbarsing D. Girase | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-3585 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Arranged Marriage (1995), a collection of eleven short stories, deals mostly with the lives of Indian or India-born American women. The present paper specifically takes for study two stories, The Bats and The Ultrasound to demonstrate how women characters in them are victims of patriarchal socio-cultural set up. The study of these characters reveals that their suffering arises mainly out of acute sense of gender discrimination. Their gender more or less defines their identity and existence, a tendency which is rooted in the socio-cultural politics that subtly and systematically functions to perpetuate male dominance and female subordination, male power and female powerlessness, helplessness, objectification, marginalization and subservience. | | Keywords : | | |
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