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    A Study Guide for Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "My Mother Combs My Hair"
    A Study Guide for Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "My Mother Combs My Hair"
    A Study Guide for Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "My Mother Combs My Hair"
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    A Study Guide for Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "My Mother Combs My Hair"

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    A Study Guide for Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "My Mother Combs My Hair," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535829236
    A Study Guide for Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "My Mother Combs My Hair"

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      A Study Guide for Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "My Mother Combs My Hair" - Gale

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      My Mother Combs My Hair

      Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

      1991

      Introduction

      My Mother Combs My Hair is a poem by the Asian American poet and author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The poem was published in 1991 in Divakaruni's first collection of verse, entitled Black Candle: Poems about Women from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh (Calyx, 1991). It is also available in the revised 2000 edition, also published by Calyx.

      The collection focuses on the various abuses perpetrated against women in the Indian subcontinent and in Asian American communities, particularly within the family. The main theme of My Mother Combs My Hair is the romantic ideal and grim reality of marriage as seen by a mother brought up in the traditional Indian ways and a daughter who is more assimilated into American culture. The poem is widely anthologized and studied in schools and colleges.

      Divakaruni has gained a reputation as one of the most important South Asian writers in English. She is best known for her novels and short stories, many of which are set in the Bay Area of San Francisco, where Divakaruni lived for many years. Her stories have appeared in over fifty magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and the New Yorker. Her writing has been included in more than thirty anthologies and has been translated into eleven

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