Bharati Mukherjee S Fiction

Bharati Mukherjee Is One Of The Major Novelists Of Indian Diaspora Who Have Achieved Enviable Positions Within A Comparatively Short Creative Span. As An Expatriate In The United States, She Has Captured Evocatively The Indian Immigrant Experience In Her Five Novels And Two Collections Of Short-Fiction. The Creative Odyssey That Started With The Tiger S Daughter (1972) And Produced Leave It To Me (1997) Recently Has Kept Her Seriously Involved In Exploring The Complexities Of Cross-Cultural Interactions.The Present Volume Is The First Full-Length Study Of Mukherjee S Creative Corpus From A Cross-Cultural Perspective. The Book, Divided In Six Chapters, Opens With An Exhaustive Account Of The Major Concepts Of Culture And It Ingeniously Traces The Nature Of Formative Influences On Her Psyche In The Second Chapter. Mukherjee S Fiction Has Been Examined In Three Well-Marked Phases Expatriation, Transition, Immigration In Three Substantive Chapters. The Quality Of Cultural Conflict In All Its Multiplicity Forms The Crux Of Her Accomplishments As A Creative Artist. She Has An Esteemed Place In The Luminous Galaxy Of Indian Men Of Letters Writing Abroad With Native Ethos Providing Them A Living Ambience. The Fiction Of Bharati Mukherjee : A Cultural Perspective Marks A Milestone In The Critical Scholarship On The Third World Literature.

Bharati Mukherjee Is At Her Best In The Depiction Of Cultural Clash Between The East And The West. She Has Indeed Become A Clebrity For Her Distinctive Approach To Expatriatehood As A Metaphysical Experience Of Exile. The Book, The First Of Its Kind On The Novelist. Makes A Comprehensive Attempt At Evaluating Various Aspects Of Mukherjee`S Fiction And Her Contribution To The Study Of Immigrant Writing And Modern Fiction.

After the assassination of her husband, seventeen-year-old Jasmine leaves India to live with a middle-aged banker in a small Iowa town, only to retain some of the traditions and memories of the past.

After the assassination of her husband, seventeen-year-old Jasmine leaves India to live with a middle-aged banker in a small Iowa town, only to retain some of the traditions and memories of the past.

Author of the novels The Tiger's Daughter (1972), Wife (1975), Jasmine (1989), and The Holder of the World (1993), as well as short-fiction collections and volumes of nonfiction, Mukherjee can be seen as either a leading writer of the Indian diaspora (along with Salman Rushdie, Rhonton Mistry, and Vikram Seth) or a prominent Asian-American writer (in the company of Maxine Hong Kingston and Diana Chang). By describing herself as an "Ellis Island writer," however, Mukherjee is putting herself in the tradition best exemplified by Bernard Malamud.

"A very fine writer, funny, intelligent, versatile and, on occasion, unexpectedly profound." --The Washington Post Book World "MUKHERJEE IS FEARLESS . . . DARING AND WITTY . . . Take the wild ride with Debby DiMartino from Albany to San Francisco, from lost child to masked avenger." --The Boston Globe "POWERFULLY WRITTEN . . . Debby has no memory of her birth parents. All she knows is that she was born in a remote Indian village, the daughter of a hippie back-packing mother and a mysterious Eurasian father, both of whom have disappeared almost without a trace. . . . Her quest for her biological parents turns into an obsession. . . . Leave It to Me . . . shows Mukherjee at the peak of her craft. . . . Mixing the Greek myth of Electra with the Indian myth of Devi, she sends Devi/Debby careening down on the Bay Area like an elemental force of vengeance." --San Francisco Chronicle "DEVI IS A BRILLIANT CREATION--hilarious, horribly knowing and even more horribly oblivious--through whom Bharati Mukherjee, with characteristic and shameless ingenuity, is laying claim to speak for an America that isn't 'other' at all." --The New York Times Book Review "STUNNING . . . An astute, ironic, and merciless insight into an aberrant version of the American dream." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Born in Calcutta and schooled in Poughkeepsie, Madison, Manhattan, beautiful, luminous Tara leaves her American husband behind as she journeys back to India. But the Calcutta she finds on her return -- seething with strikes, riots, and unrest -- is vastly different from the place she remembers. In this taut, ironic tale of colliding cultures, Tara seeks to reconcile the old world -- that of her father, the redoubtable Bengal Tiger -- and the brash new one that is being so violently ushered in. In this, her first novel, Mukherjee claimed as her subject the shock, uneasiness, and haphazard transformation that are part of the immigrant experience -- a theme she has masterfully woven into her subsequent novels, Wife and Jasmine, and into The Middleman and Other Stories, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award.