SOURCE: “See(k)ing Differences: Constructions of Gender and Culture in the Short Texts of Bharati Mukherjee,” in Intersexions: Issues of Race and Gender in Canadian Women's Writing, Creative Books, 1996, pp. 164-78.
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 minority, or man and woman, or centre and periphery … to effect a recognition of a common humanity.”
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