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 ...
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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 Calcu...
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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 ...
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In the following essay, Imtiaz uses Mukherjee's story “The Tenant” to explore themes of exile, displacement, and varieties of multicultural social relationships.
An important c...
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In the following essay, Bowen explores how in “The Management of Grief” grief becomes a “complex force for change, cultural resistance, and moral choice.”
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In the following interview, Mukherjee discusses the writing process, violence, feminism, and how her stories help to understand the immigrant experience.
Born in Calcutta, Bharati Mukherjee attende...
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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.
“Orbi...
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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 w...
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In the following essay, Barat considers two of Mukherjee's short stories and concludes that Mukherjee, despite her own denials, writes in the tradition of Indian women authors.
In an intervi...
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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 Ne...
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In the following, essay, Carchidi asserts that Mukherjee's short story "'Orbiting' … evokes an image of the interweaving of diverse points of view to create a new pe...
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In the following review, Leard states that, "With the connotations of both dislocation and progress within the tangled framework of the narrator's personal history, journey as metaphor i...
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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 he...
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Bharati Mukherjee
Bharati Mukherjee
Critical Essay by Shagufta Imtiaz
"Jasmine" an Exploration of Race and Identity
