Bharati Mukherjee has developed a reputation for exploring, through her writings, the meeting of the Third World and the First from the perspective of the immigrant to North America--to Canada and to the United States. Although she is well known for...

The author of six highly praised novels, two collections of short stories, and a smattering of nonfiction works, Bharati Mukherjee reflects her personal experiences in crossing cultural boundaries in her writings. In novels such as Jasmine, The Tiger's...

In the tradition of novels in English about India, Bharati Mukherjee's novels carry a special weight. Unlike E. M. Forster, Paul Scott, and J. G. Farrell, she writes as a novelist who grew up in Calcutta, knows Indian, and especially Bengali, culture...

Bharati Mukherjee. Desirable Daughters New York. Hyperion. 2002. 310 pages. $13.95. ISBN 0-7868-8515-7 IN DESIRABLE DAUGHTERS, Bharati Mukherjee sets herself a dual task: she wants to tell her Indian readers about Indian expatriates in America and her American readers about weird customs...

Bharati Mukherjee sits in a slant shaft of sunlight muted by the drawn lace curtain of her Ritz-Carlton window. The ninth-floor room is as tastefully dressed as she is, and seems far removed from the raucous city below. But her mind is far from...

In the following essay, Gomez claims that Mukherjee's two collections of short stories, both written after leaving Canada for the United States, reflect her new sense of integration into the New World, and that her personal sense of exile was portrayed in the earlier novels written while she was living in Canada.

In the following essay, Banerjee examines Mukherjee's short stories and concludes that the author is masterful at describing the difficulties faced by immigrants and the extraordinary ways in which they create new identities for themselves.

In the following essay, Carchidi asserts that in the story “Orbiting” Mukherjee reveals the manner in which American society itself is remade by the immigrant experience.

The transcultural novel Jasmine, by Bharati Mukherjee, represents racial and ethnic identities through attitudes and values regarding `East' and `West'. Through exploring the journey of a woman and her many identities, the influence of language, form and, imperialism and post-colonialism context become evident.