By emulating the established writers such as Mukherjee and Divakaruni, Love Marriage provides an insider’s view to a diasporic audience. It will be contended that Ganeshananthan ventures into the American diasporic women writers’ tradition rather than the postcolonial tradition by marketing the marginality of the ethnic identities of her women characters through such cultural and social details. The exoticised textual details in the narrative and the position of the women make them the authentic insiders to the ‘Other’. As Uma Narayan argues and Lisa Lau confirms the position of the novelist as an informer of the ‘Other’s’ culture to educate the uninitiated through the use of ethnocentric details evident in the South Asian American women’s fiction will be read in Ganeshanathan’s use of detailed descriptions on the Tamil diaspora in America and Canada. This paper endeavours to read V.V.Ganeshananthan’ s Love Marriage from a diasporic perspective focusing on women characters in the narrative.
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