Analysis Of The Tiger's Daughter By Mukherjee

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
Bharti Mukherjee, born on July 27, 1940, to an upper-middle class Hindu Brahmin family in Calcutta, India. She lived her childhood in a family with large number of members. She belonged to a highly intellectual family background which led to getting more academic endeavors in her career and had an opportunity of receiving excellent schooling. She got an excellent opportunity of enhancing her English language skills when her father was posted in England in 1947. She graduated from University of Calcutta and then went on with

Mukherjee’s fiction powerfully evokes the torn identities and cultural tensions that her South Asian protagonists suffer. Her focus is also on Indian woman and her struggle. Her own struggle of identity is something which brings out the essence of her works. Her work features not only cultural clashes but undercurrents of violence also. Mukherjee published her first two novels while living in Canada, The Tiger’s Daughter being published in 1972 and Wife in 1975. Her difficult experiences as an immigrant in Canada are also reflected in the themes of her short fiction collection- Darkness published in 1985. In 1989, Bharti Mukherjee wrote a novel named ‘Jasmine’. The setting of the novel is in the present, the story is about a young Indian woman trying to adapt the American way of life in order to be able to survive, changes identities several times. The novel begins with her birth early life being spent in a little town in India. The narrator in Jasmine, also called thereafter Jyoti, Jase and Jane goes through one situation and country to another. Her inner self also undergoes transformation till she finally finds a place to rest. Throughout the novel, Jamine experiences numerous situations that bring violence in