WOMEN PREDICAMENT IN CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS

The present research aims at identifying the problems and its causes emerged due to the cross-cultural migration of American women in the different Asian countries. The causes and effects of their sufferings are to be discussed from feministic and cultural points of view to reach to a certain conclusion. It is to be done with an aim of acquainting the young Western generation, particularly American women, with the problems emerging due to cross-cultural marriages with Asians and Eastward migration. The research also aims to assess the contribution of selected novelists to the feministic literature. The present research has an objective of evaluating the life and problems of migrated women protagonists in the selected texts and aims, also, at comparing and contrasting the problems faced by the migrated woman in one text with the problems faced by the woman in the another text. Finally, a purpose of undertaking the present research is a systematic investigation of cultural immigration and its critical study in the light of Feminism.

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Dr. Ravindra Ranaware is Associate Professor in English & Head of Cultural Department at D.B.F. Dayanand College of Arts & Science, Solapur, Maharashtra (India). His educational qualification is MA, NET, NET, SET, Ph.D. He has 18 years teaching experience at Undergraduate and Post Graduate Levels. He is a Ph.D. guide and prolific creative writer.