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Sasikanth, K. John Wesley, and D. Sumalatha. "Trials and Tribulations of Immigrants in Bharathi Mukherjee’s Wife." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 55 (July 2015): 44–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.55.44.

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Bharati Mukherjee is one of the most well known immigrant writers of America. Immigration is an amalgamated journey experience of oneself to another country. Migration separates one from their mother land towards an alien land, where it is marked by new culture and new adjustments. Bharathi Mukherjee’s novel wife portrays an immigrant looking back to her mother country with pain and nostalgia. Bharathi Mukherjee had beautifully carved the shapes of the characters that even a normal reader feels the presence of their tribulations as the personal grievances. The present article focuses on the trials and tribulations experienced by the Indian woman migrating to alien lands after her marriage. Dimple, the female protagonist of Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife, faces the problem of loss of culture and the quest for a new identity in the US.

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Bhattacharya, Rima. "Rewriting Immigrant Masculinities in Selected Works of Bharati Mukherjee." Journal of Men’s Studies 29, no. 3 (February 15, 2021): 278–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1060826521995125.

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The precedence of women over men in Bharati Mukherjee’s works reflects an attempt on her part to construct a feminine narrative as a means of countering the marginalized position that women usually occupy in mainstream traditional literature. This paper probes how with such displacement of female perspectives into an authoritative position, routinely prescribed for men, Mukherjee revises the suspiciously stable place occupied by male immigrant subjects in fictional writings. Employing the critical voices of several masculinity theorists, this paper explores how immigrant men’s conceptions of masculinity are reformulated and challenged by their migration processes. Seen in the light of gender oppression, the male characters, seem to occupy an ineffective and feminine narrative space even in powerful male stories of immigrant economic success written by Mukherjee. Finally, the paper probes how Mukherjee’s act of rewriting masculinity from inventive perspectives in her fictions introduces new, more egalitarian, and alternate models of manhood.

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Mukherjee, Bharati, Clark Blaise, Michael Connell, Jessie Grearson, and Tom Grimes. "An Interview with Bharati Mukherjee." Iowa Review 20, no. 3 (October 1990): 7–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.17077/0021-065x.3908.

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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Obituary: Bharati Mukherjee (1940–2017)." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 52, no. 2 (June 2017): 409–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989417708520.

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Som, Tathagata. "Understanding Bharati Mukherjee by Ruth Maxey." ariel: A Review of International English Literature 52, no. 2 (2021): 191–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ari.2021.0016.

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Crespo Gómez, Ana María. "Approaching 'Home' in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness." International Journal of English Studies 22, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 23–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ijes.494731.

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The object of this study is to explore the relationship between 'home' and the decline of ethnic identity in the female characters of Bharati Mukherjee's collection of short stories Darkness (1985). This paper argues that while it is generally accepted that diaspora entails a questioning of a sense of belonging (Kennedy, 2014: 12), for Bharati Mukherjee, "the price that the immigrant willingly pays, and that the exile avoids, is the trauma of self-transformation" ("Two ways to belong in America", 1996). This article seeks to contextualize the Indian diaspora in its roots and routes, proving an inextricable link with gendering of the concept of 'home' in Bhattacharjee (1996). The introduction is underpinned by a theoretical framework on diaspora namely South Asian female migrants in the United States, and an analysis of the Indian concept of nation, from which the literary assessment departs.

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Lateef Aziz Twayej, Mohammed. "SOCIAL IDENTITY IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE’S DAYS AND NIGHTS IN CALCUTTA." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES 12, no. 04 (2022): 563–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v12i04.030.

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The study is an attempt to discuss Bharati Mukherjee’s social identity in a remarkable work of diasporic Indian literature, Days and Nights in Calcutta, based on Henri Tajfel’s theory. Days and Nights in Calcutta is classified as one of the most prominent works in diaspora literature. It is a shared work of Bharati Mukherjee and her Canadian husband, Clark Blaise, in which they record their daily life for fourteen months in India. While reading the text, it is easy for the reader to capture the two opposite perspectives, the Western and Eastern. The Western attitude is represented in Clark Blaise’s section, in which he conveys his own experience in India by describing the streets, hotels etc. He reflects the Western eye of Indian culture by drawing the contradictions of the Indian culture with the Western one. The Eastern lens is presented in Mukherjee’s section when she narrates her leaving India when she was a little girl to Europe and her return after a long absence to her homeland. In her narration, she seeks reconciliation and reunion again with her origin. She suffers the culture clashes and racial discrimination for most of her life. Her identity is torn between the Eastern and Western cultures. European culture treated her as an Indian due to her skin colour, while in India, she is Western due to her looks. Thus, the study attempts to discuss Mukherjee’s social identity in the light of social psychology and to examine whether the writer can adopt a new culture to get a reunion after a long absence. Moreover, it also focuses on the transformative experiences of Mukherjee, which she acquires while abroad, such as racial discrimination in alien cultures due to her race, culture, and origin, leading to discrimination against her people in the homeland

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Suganya, R. "Quest for Identity and Search for Roots in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine." Shanlax International Journal of English 10, no. 3 (June 1, 2022): 43–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/english.v10i3.4946.

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Bharati Mukherjee, the author of six novels, two collections of short stories, and a smattering of nonfiction works,reflects personal experience in crossing cultural boundaries in her almost all writings.The state of exile, a sense of loss, the pain of separation, anddisorientation makeBharati Mukherjee’s novel, Jasmine "a quest for identity and search for the roots” in an alien land. This paper discusses how the protagonist of the novel, undergoes several transformations during her life journey in America, which results in a fluid state of identity.

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Alonso Breto, Isabel. "Bharati MUKHERJEE, «La gestión del dolor (1988)»." Hermēneus. Revista de traducción e interpretación, no. 20 (December 13, 2018): 609–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.24197/her.20.2018.609-625.

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Bharati Mukherjee nació en Kolkata (entonces Calcuta), India, en 1940. Durante su infancia asistió a colegios privados en Europa, y después regresó a India para estudiar en las universidades de Baroda y Kolkata. Fue admitida en el prestigioso University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop de Estados Unidos, donde obtuvo un máster y un doctorado en Literatura Comparada. Entre 1966 y 1980 vivió en Canadá con su esposo Clark Blaise, también escritor. En 1989 obtuvo la ciudadanía estadounidense, país en el que residió la mayor parte de su vida. Fue profesora de Literatura Postcolonial y Comparada en la Universidad de California en Berkeley. «El relato de la inmigración es la épica de este milenio», escribió. En efecto, la totalidad de su obra gira en torno al hecho de la migración, las identidades migratorias, sobre todo femeninas, y las sociedades multiculturales. Es autora de varias novelas y colecciones de cuentos que han recibido distinguidos galardones y disfrutado de gran éxito de público, entre los que destacan The Tiger's Daughter (1971), Wife (1975), The Middleman and Other Stories (1988), Jasmine (1989), The Holder of the World (1993), Leave It to Me (1997), Desirable Daughters (2002), The Tree Bride (2004) y Miss New India (2011). En 1987 publicó, con Clark Blaise, The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy, sobre la tragedia del vuelo Air India 182, ocurrida el 23 de junio de 1985, episodio que también inspiró el relato aquí traducido.

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Maxey, Ruth. "Animals in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee." ariel: A Review of International English Literature 54, no. 1 (January 2023): 55–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ari.2023.0002.

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Alves, Isabel Cristina Figueiredo. "Experiências Migratórias Transculturais na Obra de Bharati Mukherjee." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/22624.

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A presente dissertação procura discutir a obra literária de Bharati Mukherjee, obra que se concentra nas experiências de deslocação e pertença vividas por imigrantes e no modo como estes são profundamente transformados pelas tradições e culturas dos países de acolhimento. Ao sublinhar os novos lares que os imigrantes constróem nestes novos locais, em detrimento de uma construção nostálgica de lar/pátria, a obra de Bharati Mukherjee reitera a transculturalidade presente nas experiências dos mesmos. Uma das finalidades desta dissertação é abordar o modo como, através das personagens e das suas experiências como seres deslocados, questões como a raça e a etnia, o racismo e a discriminação, o sexo e a classe social são introduzidas tanto na sua ficção, bem como na sua escrita não-ficcional. Esta dissertação procura igualmente salientar que a ficção de Bharati Mukherjee privilegia a transculturalidade, e simultaneamente representa as vozes de todos aqueles que estão a alcançar uma preponderância cada vez mais crescente nas sociedades contemporâneas, e ainda reflectir sobre o modo como tem contribuído para uma alteração e reformulação do significado tradicional de "America", bem como do panorama literário americano.
The following dissertation attempts to discuss the literary work of Bharati Mukherjee, which concentrates on the experiences of displacement and belonging undergone by immigrants and how they are deeply transformed by the new traditions and cultures they encounter in the host countries. By highlighting the new homes they are constructing in these new locations, in detriment of a nostalgic construction of home, the work of Bharati Mukherjee reinforces the transculturality embedded in their experiences. One of the purposes of this dissertation is to approach how, through her characters and their experiences as displaced beings, issues such as race and ethnicity, racism and discrimination, gender and class are brought forward both in her fiction and non-fiction. This dissertation also intends to draw attention to the question of how the fiction of Bharati Mukherjee privileges transculturality, at the same time that it represents the voices of those who are increasingly attaining a growing preponderance in contemporary societies and how it contributes to a displacement and re-shaping of the traditional meaning of "America" as of the American literary panorama.

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Bhaumik, Rajib. "Negotiating multiple dislocations : a study of bharati mukherjee's fiction." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1508.

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Cunanan, Ma-theresa M. "A study of woman colonized." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1967191X.

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Barbosa, Cleusa Salvina Ramos Maurício. "Cultural identities of diáspora : myth and empowerment in Desirable daughters and The tree bride, by Bharati Mukherjee." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2011. http://repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/551.

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By examining the constitution of identity/ies related to women s diaspora in contemporary times, the present thesis focuses on its representation in two novels written by the Indian born U.S. writer, Bharati Mukherjee Desirable Daughters (2002), and The Tree Bride (2004). I argue that these two novels offer excellent cultural manifestations for the examination of the representation of the identitary process resulting from transnational displacements. Centred on the field of Cultural Studies, the first part of this study presents readings of the women protagonists´ identitary quest portrayed in the novels informed by the major concepts of diasporic identities, hybrid identities and transnationalisms, as they have been theorized by Stuart Hall, Inderpal Grewal, and Homi K. Bhabha. The analyses contained in the second and the third parts of this thesis draw from studies in the area of Gender Studies, and present reflections on the main characters´ trajectories which are illuminated by the central notions of agency, performativity, and empowerment, theorized by Judith Butler and Luce Irigaray. Studies on mythology both from non-feminist and feminist perspectives also provide a backdrop for the readings proposed. The thesis is structured in three chapters: the first one discusses the constitution of diasporic identities, particularly the main character s; the second chapter concentrates on the gender-marked appropriation of mythical discourse by the author in the composition of her narratives by means of the literary strategy of feminist revisionist mythmaking, as pointed out by Alicia Ostriker; and the third section analyzes the protagonist s actions, viewing her process of empowerment as a transformative strategy in terms of subjective development which is strongly marked by gender issues. The main results of the analysis carried out is the perception that, by combining the shaping of diasporic identities, the rewriting of myth, and the deployment of empowerment strategies in the composition of the main characters in her novels, Bharati Mukherjee problematizes the diasporic woman subject s identity formation in relation to the India/U.S. movement, revisiting and reweaving Indian traditions from multifaceted and gender-marked perspectives. This, in turn, may act in terms of raising readers´ understanding and critical awareness of the women subjects´ diasporic process in the contemporary world.
By examining the constitution of identity/ies related to women s diaspora in contemporary times, the present thesis focuses on its representation in two novels written by the Indian born U.S. writer, Bharati Mukherjee Desirable Daughters (2002), and The Tree Bride (2004). I argue that these two novels offer excellent cultural manifestations for the examination of the representation of the identitary process resulting from transnational displacements. Centred on the field of Cultural Studies, the first part of this study presents readings of the women protagonists´ identitary quest portrayed in the novels informed by the major concepts of diasporic identities, hybrid identities and transnationalisms, as they have been theorized by Stuart Hall, Inderpal Grewal, and Homi K. Bhabha. The analyses contained in the second and the third parts of this thesis draw from studies in the area of Gender Studies, and present reflections on the main characters´ trajectories which are illuminated by the central notions of agency, performativity, and empowerment, theorized by Judith Butler and Luce Irigaray. Studies on mythology both from non-feminist and feminist perspectives also provide a backdrop for the readings proposed. The thesis is structured in three chapters: the first one discusses the constitution of diasporic identities, particularly the main character s; the second chapter concentrates on the gender-marked appropriation of mythical discourse by the author in the composition of her narratives by means of the literary strategy of feminist revisionist mythmaking, as pointed out by Alicia Ostriker; and the third section analyzes the protagonist s actions, viewing her process of empowerment as a transformative strategy in terms of subjective development which is strongly marked by gender issues. The main results of the analysis carried out is the perception that, by combining the shaping of diasporic identities, the rewriting of myth, and the deployment of empowerment strategies in the composition of the main characters in her novels, Bharati Mukherjee problematizes the diasporic woman subject s identity formation in relation to the India/U.S. movement, revisiting and reweaving Indian traditions from multifaceted and gender-marked perspectives. This, in turn, may act in terms of raising readers´ understanding and critical awareness of the women subjects´ diasporic process in the contemporary world.

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Eysel, Caroline. "Voyeuses, voyantes et visionnaires : Farida Belghoul, Nina Bouraoui,Bharati Mukherjee, les révoltées de l'image." Paris 13, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA131022.

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Des mouvements migratoires qui ont transforme depuis quelques decennies les anciennes puissances coloniales occidentales en terres d'immigration, ont emerge depuis une dizaine d'annees une litterature dite de "la deuxieme generation de l'immigration au sein de laquelle la production feminine est tres importante. Supposant qu'il y a la plus qu'une coincidence, nous montrons comment, chez trois romancieres issues de l'immigration (nina bouraoui et farida belghoul, franco-algeriennes, bharati mukherjee, hindo-americaine), les voix de l'etranger et de la femme s'entrecroisent par les (en)jeux de la double appartenance culturelle. Grace aux outils de la psychanalyse qui nous enseigne que le bonheur n'existe qu'au prix d'une revolte, nous avons identifie les variations d'une ecriture-revolte aufeminin, qui tisse l'itineraire d'un sujet au point de confluence entre le langage, la pensee et la sensation. En suivant cet itineraire en forme de passage, notre objectif etait d'extirper la litterature "issue de la migration" de l'orniere de l'immigration, en analysant le role structural plutot que thematique de l'experience migratoire dans l'ecriture. Nous avons defini la migrance comme retour sur la memoire individuelle et culturelle de la femme, ce retour etant la condition necessaire a la transformation : l'ecriture-revolte au feminin raconte un retour/liberation visualise puis visibilise a travers un acte-trace qui constitue un nouveau commencement. Ce retour sur l'interdit feminin questionne et transgresse cet interdit au lieu meme de son origine. Nos auteurs temoignant d'une certaine mefiance envers le mot, souvent traitre, et d'une plus grande confiance en l'image, notre analyse s'est deployee sur trois niveaux dont l'intrication trame l'epaisseur de l'ecriture et des personnages qu'elle compose : axe du mot-image, axe des materiaux semiotisables, axe de l'espace-temps, carrefour ou se negocie la place du sujet c'est-adire son espace dans le temps.

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Khan, Shoukat Yaseen. "History, culture and identity in the novels of Bapsi Sidhwa, Bharati Mukherjee and Hanif Kureishi." Thesis, Tours, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOUR2018/document.

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L'objectif de cette thèse est d'étudier trois romans écrits par des auteurs anglophones du Pakistan ou de l'Inde, à savoir Bapsi Sidhwa, Bharati Mukherjee et Hanif Kureishi. On pourrait être tenté de placer les trois écrivains de cette étude dans la catégorie «littérature des immigrants». Ils écrivent tous à un moment de migration de masse lorsque l'idée de «choc culturel» parmi les peuples occidentaux commence à être plus évidente. Les trois écrivains sont affectés par des thèmes qui apparaissent seulement de manière marginale dans le débat évoqué ci-dessus, l'accent étant principalement mis sur les difficultés culturelles et sociales des femmes dans la société indo-pakistanaise. Quant à Kureishi, la polarisation mentionnée ci-dessus suppose un accent très différent, impliquant la situation d'un Asiatique né et élevé dans la société occidentale. Dans cette évaluation globale du contexte idéologique et historique commun aux trois écrivains, il sera important d'examiner les attitudes spécifiques adoptées par chaque écrivain par rapport à son expérience personnelle. L'objectif principal de cette étude sera donc thématique, en se concentrant sur les préoccupations spécifiques de ces écrivains et sur la manière dont cela se manifeste dans leur représentation particulière des tensions en jeu
The objective of this thesis is to study three novels written by English-speaking authors of Pakistan or India, namely Bapsi Sidhwa, Bharati Mukherjee and Hanif Kureishi. One might be tempted to place the three writers of this study in the category of "literature of immigrants." They all write at a time of mass migration when the idea of "cultural shock" among Western peoples begins to be more evident. All three writers are affected by themes which appear only marginally in the debate evoked above, much of the emphasis being on the cultural and social difficulties of women in Indo-Pakistani society. As for Kureishi, the polarization mentioned above assumes a very different emphasis, involving the situation of an Asian born and brought up inside Western society. Within this overall assessment of the ideological and historical context common to all three writers, it will thus be important to examine the specific attitudes adopted by each writer in relation to his or her own personal experience. The main focus of this study will therefore be thematic, centering on these writers’ specific preoccupations and the way this is seen in their peculiar depiction of the tensions at stake

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Barbosa, Cleusa Salvina Ramos Maurício. "O caráter utópico da busca identitária em duas autoras contemporâneas : Lya Luft e Bharati Mukherjee." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2005. http://repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/479.

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This study examines the course of the protagonists of the novels A asa esquerda do anjo and Jasmine, starting from the identity perspective, informed by the Cultural Studies, having as the main theorists Bhabha (1998) and Hall (1992) and by the Utopian Studies, through the work of Ernst Bloch (1959), as well as by questions related to gender, which use theoretical approaches by Buttler (2003) and Costa (1996). From these conceptual fields, the fundamental elements that guide the readings contained in this dissertation are constituted. Considering the works A asa esquerda do anjo, by Lya Luft, and Jasmine, by Bharati Mukherjee, an analysis related to the theoretical areas mentioned before is developed, for these novels offer a privileged study field, in which identity, cultural and utopian elements emerge. It is still observed that the studied works are part of contemporary context, revealing proper aspects to their time: multicultural societies, feeling of alienation, conflicts resulting from mass dislocation phenomena, confrontation between cultural traditions. Through the examination of the identity path of the protagonists in the referred works, in dialogue with the theoretical framework, the impossibility of recognition of an identity as a completed / closed structure is observed. Such a consideration indicates the major aim of our research: the understanding of the process in which the identity quest occurs through a comparative approach, as well as an investigation of the identity configuration as an inapprehensible element.
Esta pesquisa examina a trajetória das protagonistas dos romances A asa esquerda do anjo e Jasmine, a partir da perspectiva da busca identitária, informada pelos estudos culturais, tendo como teóricos principais Bhabha (1998) e Hall (1992), e pelos estudos da utopia através da obra de Ernst Bloch (1959), bem como por questões relativas a gênero, utilizando-se das abordagens teóricas de Buttler (2003) e Costa (1996). A partir desses campos conceituais, ficam constituídos os elementos fundamentais que orientam as leituras contidas nesta dissertação. Considerando-se as obras A asa esquerda do anjo, de Lya Luft, e Jasmine, de Bharati Mukherjee, é desenvolvida uma análise relativa às áreas teóricas supra citadas; uma vez que esses romances oferecem um campo de estudo privilegiado, onde figuram elementos identitários, culturais, e utópicos. Observamos, ainda, que as obras tratadas são analisadas a partir do viés comparativo, e se encontram inseridas num contexto contemporâneo, revelando aspectos próprios a essa época: sociedades multiculturais, sentimento de alienação, conflitos advindos de fenômenos de deslocamentos de massas, confrontos entre tradições culturais e entre os sexos. Através do exame do percurso identitário das protagonistas nas referidas obras, em diálogo com o aparato teórico-conceitual, observa-se a impossibilidade de reconhecer uma identidade enquanto estrutura acabada, fechada. Percebe-se, nesse sentido, uma concepção de identidade concernente a subjetividades pós-modernas, continuamente formadas e transformadas. Concluímos que a questão da configuração identitária, mesmo sendo bastante discutida e iluminada pelas teorias citadas acima, ainda constitui caráter complexo, consistindo-se enquanto elemento inapreensível em sua totalidade.

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Ruia, Reshma. "A mouthful of silence and the place of nostalgia in diaspora writing : home and belonging in the short fiction of Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.553486.

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A Mouthful of Silence is a novel set in Manchester. It is about a middle-aged Indian man, PK Monghia, who is full of regrets and bitterness about getting old and the steady decline of his business. He still has an appetite for love and happiness, but feels trapped in his marriage to Geeta. Their only child, Sammy, is a disappointment too. Born after several miscarriages, he is the focus of excessive maternal devotion on the part of Geeta and an object of contempt in the eyes of PK, who wanted a sporty son, a reflection of his own golden youth. A new woman enters the barren landscape of PK's emotional life. She is Esther Solomon, rich, beautiful, vivacious. She is all that his life is not. She also happens to be the wife of a competitor, Cedric Solomon, who is successful and powerful and a constant reminder of what PK might have been. PK and Esther are drawn to each other and embark on a love affair that distracts PK and fills him with guilt that he pushes aside time and again. PK begins neglecting his business and his family, and he fails to notice his son's growing friendship and obsession with a more street-wise girl, Alice. Sammy gradually changes from a molly-coddled boy into a surly, uncommunicative teenager with secrets. Geeta meanwhile watches the slow unravelling of her family life, and PK is never quite sure whether she has discovered his affair. Events unfold that compel PK to make choices. He is forced to confront his ambiguous morality and to question the nature and meaning of love in all its guises. My thesis explores the main theoretical approaches surrounding diaspora and the concepts of home, belonging and nostalgia. It is my aim to extrapolate from the theoretical framework and apply their relevance and limitations to the study of the diasporic condition. My primary focus will be on the Indian diaspora within the United States and its portrayal in Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri's short fiction. More specifically, I wish to look closely at how nostalgia is both employed as a method and represented as a theme in creating and/or shaping the sense of belonging and home within their fictional narratives. Finally, I will place their work within the larger context of diaspora literature and analyse the overall diasporic literary response to established and often problematic understandings of nostalgia, home and belonging.

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Alfonso-Forero, Ann Marie. "Translating Postcolonial Pasts: Immigration and Identity in the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee, Elizabeth Nunez, and Jhumpa Lahiri." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/577.

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This dissertation examines how postcoloniality affects identity formation in contemporary women's immigrant literature. In order to do so, it must interrogate the critical fields that are most interested in issues of national and cultural identities, migration, and the appropriation of women by both Western and postcolonial projects. By examining the fiction of Bharati Mukherjee, Elizabeth Nunez, and Jhumpa Lahiri through the triple lens of ethnic American studies, postcolonial theory, and transnational feminism, I will argue that theorizing postcolonial women's writing in the United States involves sustained analysis of how particular socio-political experiences are translated into the context of American identity. I am particularly interested in the manner in which female subjects in these texts navigate between the various and often contradictory demands placed on them by their respective homeland cultures and their new immigrant positions in the United States. Although each of these writers depict immigrant women protagonists who adapt to these demands in their own particular ways, a study of these characters' gendered and cultural identities reveals a powerful relationship between the manner in which women are figured into the preservation of the postcolonial nation-state and the ways in which these women utilize immigration as an occasion to appropriate and subvert this role in the establishment of a new, negotiated identity. This project draws on three important and current fields of interest to both cultural and literary studies. Postcolonial studies, which has been central to the study of literature by minority writers, provides a useful foundation for understanding hybrid identities, dislocation, and the ways in which empire gave rise to nationalisms that utilized women in the formation and preservation of the nation-state. Transnational feminist theories are critical to understanding the implications of nationalism's appropriation of women and their bodies in it projects, and are especially useful in establishing feminisms that are not limited by American or European definitions and that defy homogenizing the experiences of postcolonial women. They affirm that there are many strategies for employing female agency, and that we must consider the particular circumstances (economic, cultural, racial, national, gender) that allow women of color to favor one strategy over another. Finally, U.S. Ethnic studies will inform my readings of texts that are, at their core, narratives of immigration to the United States and the seeking out of the American Dream. However, this dissertation suggests, the precarious position of immigrants in a nation whose ideals and dominating mythology are marred by a dark history of racism and exclusionary practices plays an important role in the establishment of an ethnic American identity in the United States.

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Abel, Corinne Shelly. "Power and transgression: margins, crossings and monstrous women in selected works of Bharati Mukherjee and Angela Carter." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23655.

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This study focuses on power and transgression in selected works of two disparate authors, Bharati Mukherjee and Angela Carter. Despite their differences of origins, cultures and styles, both writers articulate a vision of transgressive, unruly women, often situated at society's edges, who dare to challenge boundaries and who are capable of monstrous, larger-than-life acts. Setting these two authors side by side illuminates how the margins can unleash an energetic potency and reveals how transgression produces a liberatory effect that both unsettles power and provides a necessary advantage for those who wish to inhabit the space of power. Three main areas of investigation are covered. The initial section addresses people at the 'Margins' in terms of Carter's use of the carnivalesque and Mukherjee's application of chaos theory; unexpected confluences emerge which paradoxically speak to the symbolic force of those cast to the side or consigned to the edges, suggesting that the margins themselves can become places of power. The section on 'Crossings' looks at transgression both literally, as a crossing over from one space to another, and metaphorically, as a violation of normative codes of behaviour. For both authors, crossings of one kind or another, whether metaphoric, literal, or textual, foreground a transgressive edge. An analysis of the texts reveals how, in very different ways, Mukherjee and Carter articulate transgression as contesting established authority and creating space for a divergent form of ascendancy. The final section on 'Monstrous Women' deals with how women and foreigners are framed as 'freaks' or monsters in order to devalue their significance within hegemonic patriarchal structures. Ironically, this framing can be recuperated so that it simultaneously subverts power through parody, excess and violence, and creates a gap for accessing it. Borders, gaps and crossings underpin this entire study and drive the rationale for reading these two authors together, revealing the spaces between them, and how they criss-cross, meet, collide or fail to align. The journey of this thesis has travelled a counterpath: it has demanded openness to the encounter with the unexpected, resulting in the discovery of insights, and being surprised and enlightened by unsuspected alliances and evocative mismatches.

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Alam, Fakrul. Bharati Mukherjee. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

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1954-, Nelson Emmanuel S., and Mukherjee Bharati, eds. Bharati Mukherjee: Critical perspectives. New York: Garland Pub., 1993.

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1969-, Edwards Bradley C., ed. Conversations with Bharati Mukherjee. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009.

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1943-, Dhawan R. K., ed. The fiction of Bharati Mukherjee: A critical symposium. New Delhi: Prestige, 1996.

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Kumar, Nagendra. The fiction of Bharati Mukherjee: A cultural perspective. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2001.

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University of Madras. Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies, ed. Immigration and immigrant literature by Bharati Mukherjee: A study. Chennai: Centre for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Madras, 2013.

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Mukherjee, Binode Behari. Benode Behari Mukherjee Birth Centenary Exhibition, 20th November 2004 to 2nd December 2004 at Nandan, Kala Bhavana. Santiniketan: Kala Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, 2004.

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Dascalu, Cristina Emanuela. Imaginary homelands of writers in exile: Salman Rushdie, Bharati Mukherjee, and V.S. Naipaul. Youngstown, N.Y: Cambria Press, 2007.

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Home elsewhere: A study of short fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri and Bharati Mukherjee. Jalandhar: ABS Publications, 2006.

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Dlaska, Andrea. Ways of belonging: The making of new Americans in the fiction of Bharati Mukherjee. Wien: Braumüller, 1999.

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Newman, Judie. "Bharati Mukherjee." In A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction, 539–46. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444310108.ch53.

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Kreutzer, Eberhard. "Mukherjee, Bharati." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_12196-1.

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Ghosh-Schellhorn, Martina. "Mukherjee, Bharati." In Metzler Autorinnen Lexikon, 371–72. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-03702-2_257.

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Kreutzer, Eberhard. "Mukherjee, Bharati: Die Kurzgeschichten." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–3. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_12197-1.

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Multani, Navleen. "“Strangenesses and Selves” in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine." In Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture, 117–29. New York: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003371816-16.

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Moslund, Sten Pultz. "The Migrant Hero’s Incredible Speed in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine." In Migration Literature and Hybridity, 101–35. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230282711_5.

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Frey Büchel, Nicole. "On Identification and Narrative Identity: Self-Formation in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine." In Imaging Identity, 123–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21774-7_6.

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Obourn, Megan. "Academic Investments in Liberal Multiculturalism Bharati Mukherjee’s Representational versus Distantiative Aesthetics." In Reconstituting Americans, 123–56. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230339378_5.

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Bhattacharya, Rima. "Negotiating the trauma of displacement in Bharati Mukherjee's Wife and Jasmine." In Understanding Women's Experiences of Displacement, 65–79. London: Routledge India, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003045717-7.

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Gauthier, Marni. "Transnational Empire and Its Exuberant (Dis)Contents: Bharati Mukherjee’s Holder of the World." In Amnesia and Redress in Contemporary American Fiction, 119–50. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230337824_6.

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Conference papers on the topic "Bharati Mukherjee"

"BHARATHI MUKHERJEE - THE VOICE OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN IMMIGRANT & EXPATRIATE SOCIAL REALITY." In 2nd National Conference on Translation, Language & Literature. ELK Asia Pacific Journals, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.16962/elkapj/si.nctll-2015.12.

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