Transculturalism in Bharati Mukherjee’s Fiction

by Dr. R.Sofiya & Prof. A. Famitha Banu

Bharati Mukherjee is a famous Indian American author of Bengali origin. She has won the National Book Critics Awards for her famous works. Her writings are an indepth study of human psychology. As she is a post-colonial diasporic writer, her characters carry different socio- geographical, linguo-cultural and identity crisis with them. Mukherjee’s works highlight the diverse conditions of narrative possibility. She is psychological realist and her characters provide complexities of human behavior. She has established herself as a mature immigrant fiction writer. This work focuses on four of her novels; they are Jasmine, Desirable Daughters, The Tiger’s Daughter and Wife.             Bharati Mukherjeeis a post colonial contemporary writer who has presented her themes of cultural conflict in different dimensions. She has depicted the problems faced by Indian and other third world immigrant to America. This book seeks to study the phenomena of migration, the status of new immigrants and the feeling of alienation, experienced by the immigrant with special reference to Mukherjee’s cultural transaction. She acknowledges the one’s cultural inheritance is an integral part of one’s personality. This book gives us bird’s eye view analysis and explanation of the background and development of Indian writing in English literature especially the contribution of feminist writers in the post colonial period. It also discusses about the themes of expatriation, immigrant experience, dilemmas and heterogeneity. All these leads to the civilized world which are insist the women’s values in all sources and fields. It also highlights the condition of Asian immigrants in North America with particular attention on the lives and experience of South Asian women immigrants to the new world.

Pages: 111

Publisher: First Book Publishing

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