LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 12 December 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Expatriate Sensibility in Bharati Mukherjee’s Novels:
The Tiger’s Daughter and Wife

J. Kavitha, M.A., PGDELT, M.Phil.

The novel, as a literary form has the scope to depict the human condition in all its varied aspects. Bharati Mukherjee’s fiction very effectively depicts the current social and cultural scenario of the American society as experienced by the immigrants. Her novels are praised for its representation of the plight of Indian expatriates in North America.

The early years of Bharati Mukherjee’s sheltered life were spent as the dearly loved daughter of an upper class family of the metropolitan city of Calcutta. She had the advantage of convent schooling, followed by higher education at a prestigious institution in the U.S.A. She got her M.F.A. and Ph.D from the University of Iowa and worked for some years as Assistant Professor of English at McGill University, Montreal, before moving to New York along with Clark Blaise, her Canadian husband. Her fourteen years stay in Canada was some of the hardest of her life, as she encountered racial prejudice – a different kind of caste system. In an interview, she says:

In Canada, I experienced an awful lot of racial discrimination – there were a lot of violent incidents... Canada was a very hard place to be a dark-skinned Asian in. After five years we moved to New York and I have never regretted that decision. (qtd. in Pandit 35)

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