The Supremacy of Feminine Regality in the Fictions of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, a prominent contemporary Indian-American author, has consistently portrayed women as regal, empowered, and resilient figures in her literary oeuvre. From mythological retellings to diaspora fiction, her female protagonists exhibit moral strength, independence, and transformative agency. This paper explores how women's regality defined as their inherent dignity, sovereignty, and inner power remains a dominant theme in Divakaruni’s work, particularly focusing on her novels The Palace of Illusions, The Forest of Enchantments, and Sister of My Heart. The study emphasizes on Divakaruni’s reclaiming women's voices and challenges of patriarchal paradigms through mythic reimagining and immigrant narratives.