An American Indian Woman In Life By Bharati Mukherjee Summary

AN EXPATRIATE INDIAN WOMAN IN WIFE

THE PHASE OF EXPATRIATION: Bharati Mukherjee, an Indo-American writer of the recent times, has presented her themes in a different dimension than ever before. Being the writer of the modern times, she has depicted in her fiction the problems faced by Indian and other third-world immigrants who attempt to assimilated into North American life-styles. Using and understanding prose replete with ironic developments and with observations, she focused upon sensitive protagonists who lack a stable sense of personal and cultural identity and are victimized by racism, sexism and other forms of social oppression. She started gaining recognition and reputation for her novels in United States. Her popularity shot up when her second book The Middleman and Other Stories bagged the 1988 National Critics Award in America. In an interview with Alison B. Carb five years ago, Mukherjee made it very clear that she regards herself as being part of the American tradition rather than the Indian one: “I view myself as an American author in the tradition of other American authors whose ancestors arrived at Ellis Island.” That it was very interesting statement from someone who was born and spent the formative years of her

The genre, a comedy of manners about marriage was also reminiscent of Austen. ThougMukherjee chose to emphasized the woes of marriage rather than its joys. Also unlike Austen, Mukherjee’s focused was upon an intricate character such as Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet but on a rather simple character. Mukherjee exemplified that ambiguity underlying her mental make-up defined the incompleteness of her very being. But life has so far been simply a rehearsal for real life that came with marriage; for marriage brings opportunities that single women were denied in Indian culture and Dimple longs for those freedoms more than