SOURCE: “From Expatriation to Immigration: The Case of Bharati Mukherjee,” in The Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee: A Critical Symposium, Prestige Books, 1996, pp. 105-15.
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 thought of as a mainstream American author.
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