The novels of Bharati Mukherjeee are self-actualising. Quest for definition of oneself and search for identity are the main features of women in her novels who had caught between tradition, culture and modernity. Her novels reveal the sufferings of most of woman in the alien land. In some of her novels she speaks about women who succeed in the alien land. Neither can they completely detach themselves from their part, nor do they have any sureness in the future. Mukherjee’s depiction of women and
Bharati Mukherjee is one of the eminent expatriate writer of modern English literature. She born in India, but settled down in Canada at present. Her writings spread the fragrances of her motherland its traditions, customs and values. Each novel of her has a heroine of Indian origin, who suffers hard to find out her own new identity in the new world. In her novel JASMINE, she takes up the theme of search for identity. The novel moves round a woman protagonist Jyoti an ambitious lady who moved from
Mukherjee did not considered Jasmine “a good person,” she was a “balck-mailer” and a “murderer” who has dumped a good crippled man. But she considered her a “love goddess” a “life-force”. She was not mortal in the conventional sense but her mortality was her own way of looking at life. She was a ‘path-finder’ and pierces her way through the dense jungle of problems. Every movement added to her self-confidence and her experience guides her future course of action. She was fluid and adjusting her each
Abstract: Bharati Mukherjee started writing in the late 1970s and still proves her mettle through her novels and short stories. The middle man and other stories by Bharati Mukherjee focuses on the challenges of early immigrants. Bharati Mukherjee herself got involved so much that she went to the extent of developing one story “Jasmine” into a full - fledged novel. The collection of short stories helps the readers to gather valuable inputs about the struggle for survival and the ultimate triumph
Bharati Mukherjee is a renowned author of the Indian Writings in English who has evoked the study of feminism in her writings. Her major anxiety as a creative writer is to find and marmalade women’s identity as daughter, wife, mother and most vital of all as human beings. Her novels are alarmed with a women’s quest for self and elucidation in to the female psyche and indulgent of the vagueness of life. She deals with the phenomenon of exodus, her prominence being on her female characters, their struggle
CONCLUSION Bharati Mukherjee is one of the most celebrated writers of the Asian immigrant in America. Assimilation, they assert, would be the answer to the discontents of Diaspora. Immigrant experiences are a composite one made up of journeys and borders crossings. Migration leads to separation. The immigrant lands herself in a new country and a new culture. As a result there is a cultural conflict in her mind. The immigrant looks back to her mother country with pain and nostalgia. Married to a
Self-identity and culture is an integral part of Indian women who refused to buckle themselves under the pressure and succeeded in changing their own lives and lives of those who are dependent on them. In literature, it was being portrayed by majority of writers, among them, Bharati Mukherjee, became the live example of a free woman who through her novels, portrayed the struggles of immigrant women for achieving their identity. Mukherjee provides confidence for the readers to challenge boldly against
Expatriates’ sensibility as portrayed in Bharati Mukherjee’s novels Jasmine and Desirable Daughters. Chapter I Introduction India is a country of many languages and literatures of various customs and traditions. English may be a foreign language but has occupied a permanent place with the native languages of India. The presence of British in Indian writing in English possible. Some English men in India wrote on Indian themes. The most popular among them are Sir William
according to whether it is fiction non- fiction and whether it is prose or poetry, it can be further distinguished according to major forms such as the novel, short story or drama and works are often categorized according feather or expectations. The quest to discover a definition for ‘literature’ is a road that is much travelled, though the point of arrival, if ever reached, seldom satisfactory. Indian literature refers to the literature produced on the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and
attitude about the marriage. Women begin to locate themselves in the conflict of tradition and modernity and this made them alienated from self and society. Man-woman relationship, marital discord, gender discrimination, delineation of self, search for identity, male hegemony and female subordination, power and sexual politics etc. are the prevalent themes in the fiction of contemporary writers. Shashi Deshpande (b: 1938), a prolific writer, has written ten novels, four books for children and many short