Bharati Mukherjee

Abstract Bharati Mukherjee is Indian-born American Novelist and short story writer. She went to America for her higher studies, and then lived in Canada with her husband Clark Blaise for a few years. In 1980 she went back to America where she currently lives. She is one of the writer, who would rather be considered as being from her adopted homeland, rather than as an Indian Expatriate writer. Mukherjee’s fiction portrays expatriate characters and their experiences. Mukherjee‟s works focus on the

There is an apparent thematic pattern in Bharati Mukherjee’s novel. Her major theme is expatriation but includes other themes like the theme of transformation or metamorphosis, the theme of journey, the theme of existentialism and the theme of feminism. An expatriate undergoes the process of up rootedness and displacement, alienation; accommodation in modern time is usually voluntary. In Bharati Mukherjee’s novels, most of the protagonists are born and brought up initially in India. They come from

life. She had different names in the US because each name was a significance to her life experience She was brought to florida from Punjab illegally. The author Bharati M wanted to write a book to express themes as isolation, sexism, discrimination, the mistreatment of Indian women, and exploring identities. In Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee establishes that gender plays a role in the determination of status in Hindu culture.she also utilizes Jasmine’s changing of names to represent the physical dominance

CHAPTER-II Literary Survey and Review of the Critical Works on Bharati Mukherjee Before analysing Mukherjee’s novels citically, it is important to survey and review the critical works on Bharati Mukherjee and her fictional work. The present chapter provides a general review and assessment of critics on Mukherjee's fiction. In Bharati Mukherjee: A Perspective, Sushma Tondon examines her three novels entitled Tiger’s Daughter, Wife and Jasmine. She also analyses her collections of short stories

glimpse on Bharati Mukherjee’s novels. Bharati Mukherjee is an American writer of Indian origin. She is known for her effortless contributions towards addressing the psychological sufferings of women. Her fiction reflects the image, the status, the struggle of Indian women of all classes and creeds in the modern and post-modern times. She is the renowned female writers in India who has earned her place by producing exceptional work in Indian diasporic literature. The novels of Bharati Mukherjee are basically

Bharati Mukherjee is an Indian American writer who occupies the familiar privileged position of a well-bred post-colonial writer, one who has been born, brought up and educated in a third world country and has achieved literary repute in the American academia. She is protective of her American citizenship, Bharati Mukherjee’s upbringing, and career and marriage history consists of a series of displacements and expatriations. Part of the diaspora that has been a feature of Indian sub-continents

Maria’s intentional disruption in “The Middleman” “The Middleman” is a short story selected from the American writer Bharati Mukherjee’s collection of short stories: “The Middleman and Other Stories”. The author creates a narrator, the middleman Alfie, to narrate the coups companied with the transference of a charming lady, named Maria, among several powerful men, in an unsteady Central America country. On the way back from Santa Simona, a camp of the guerrillas, Maria says to Alfie: “we

In the novel Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee talks about the hardships that Jasmine faced throughout her life. First, Jasmine had to witness her husband's death. Second, she had to find a way into America. Lastly, she was raped and abused by Half Face. First, Jasmine witnesses the death of her husband, Prakash from a bomb explosion while shopping. The police make her identify her husband as shes most likely traumatized. In chapter 14, she states, “If God sent Sukkhi to kill my husband, then I renounce

minstrel. In 1350 Boccaccio wrote a world famous collection of love stories in prose, entitled Decameron. Such short stories are called in Italian ‘novella’. . Bharati Mukherjee’s female protagonists are immigrants and suffer cultural shock but they are anxious to establish their identity by undertaking their heroic journeys that is why Bharati Mukherjee received considerable critical attention from almost all the quarters of the globe in a relatively short period of just twenty five years. Even though she

In the essay, “Two Ways to Belong”, the author Bharati Mukherjee explains how she is influenced by her family and her connection with her sister. In the beginning of the essay Bharati is explaining to the reader the trip she will take to America with her sister. Growing up Bharati and her sister had specific goals set by their parents that the girls hoped to accomplish. Bharati explained these goals set by her parents when she said, “We would endure our two years in America, secure our degrees, then