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The Middleman by Bharati Mukherjee.
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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, Sant-Wade and Radell discuss three short stories from Mukherjee's The Middleman and Other Stories, particularly the issue of immigrant women reshaping their lives and id...
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In the following essay, Rao discusses eight stories from Mukherjee's Darkness and The Middleman and Other Stories and shows why in Mukherjee's own view they represent her desire to be th...
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In the following essay, Tikoo examines several of the short stories of The Middleman and Other Stories, concluding that “Mukherjee's stories ultimately present a fascinating picture of w...
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In the following essay, Morton-Mollo discusses Mukherjee's depiction in The Middleman and Other Stories and Jasmine of the cultural “process” and “reidentification” ...
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In the following essay, Chandra rejects Mukherjee's appraisal of The Middleman and Other Stories as being tales about the “transformation” of immigrants and United States citizens...
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In the following analysis of Darkness and The Middleman and Other Stories, Harishankar maintains that Mukherjee's writings act as a bridge of understanding “between the mainstream and mi...
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In the following excerpt, Ascher praises Mukherjee's The Middleman and Other Stories and states that "one of the great joys, for me, of reading The Middleman is experiencing a world that...
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In the following review, Parameswaran discusses the stories in Mukherjee's The Middleman and Other Stories.
Bharati Mukherjee's second volume of short fiction consists of eleven stories ...
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In the following essay, Sant-Wade and Radell discuss the ways in which immigrant characters adapt to American culture in Mukherjee's The Middleman and Other Stories
The female protagonist in on...
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Bharati Mukherjee
Bharati Mukherjee
Critical Essay by Arvindra Sant-Wade and Karen Marguerite Radell
