Trauma and Survival Instinct: A Study of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s One Amazing Thing

Abstract

The last two decades has witnessed the outstanding grown of women writers in India. Women Writer most of their works highlight the women’s struggle for man-made rules of conduct in the society. One such writer is Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Her social experience with reality is an immigrant. She portrays immigrant experiences in her writings. The picture of imagination with expatriate writings mainly signifies the struggles for identity and construction of new identities. Divakaruni’s One Amazing Thing is a complicated history of different people from the United States who are caught in the deadly embrace of earthquake which has caused an uncomfortable residue of enmity and amity amidst insecurity, uncertainty and doubt. It is story, there was a woman behind the slashed in customer service window, but she was not looking assured to Uma who wanted to get an appointment with the Visa officer Uma.  She did not trust her. This paper focuses a cultural politics of Diaspora and discrimination.  The anxiety is provoked by hybridizing of language. It is activated in the anguish, associated with vacillating boundaries are Trauma and survival instinct (psychic), cultural, territorial.  It results in the emergence of cultural difference or the diversity of cultures.