LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:2 February 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Sandwiched Between Personalities –
A Study of Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter

Mrs. T. Sathyakala, M.A, M.Phil., Ph.D. Candidate

Problems of Immigrants

Mukherjee’s novels deal with the problems of immigrants. As an immigrant she feels and realizes the real problems of immigrants. Born in India, she lived as daughter in India, but she became a wife in America. During the the time in-between, she was shuttled between identities like many of her protagonists. She was feeling like an alien in Canada, but this experience made her a good writer. Bharti Mukherjee in an interview has clearly stated her aim in her novels. “We immigrants have fascinating tales to relate. Many of us have lived in newly independent or emerging countries which are plagued by civil and religious conflicts…. When we uproot ourselves from those countries and come here, either by choice or out of necessity, we suddenly must absorb 200 years of American history and learn to adopt to American society(1)(Quoted in Sunday Review, The Times of India, October 1, 1989, P.1)

The Tiger’s Daughter – The Dual Cultural Conflicts

In her novel The Tiger’s Daughter, Mukherjee deals with the dual cultural conflicts. Tara Banerjee the protagonist of ‘The Tiger’s Daughter’ returns back to India after seven years' stay in America. Tara the protagonist had married an American and settled in America. She had a prolonged expatriate experience in America. She had been homesick and lonely for many days in her life abroad. During her time away from her home-land, “The immigrant, alienated from his hom-eland, his people and family, feels the wrench of separation. He had been pushed violently out from the nest of his birth. It proved a shattering experience and he longed to be back,. yearning for the security and warmth of the feathery place”. (2) Tara’s relatives receive her at the Bombay Airport, and she feels comfortable with them. Tara leaves India in search of her dream. This migration to Acculturation leads her to search for her identity. After Tara met her relatives in Bombay, she decided to leave Bombay and move to her homeland Calcutta. Her uncle asked her to travel by train and said that would be comfortable, and tried to arrange for AC Coach, but at the last minute all the AC tickets were booked and they could not get a ticket for her in the AC Coach. “Tara, is anxious to get started on the last lap of her journey home” (19).

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Mrs. T. Sathyakala, M.A, M.Phil, Ph.D. Candidate
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Department of English
Arulmigu Palaniandavar College of Arts and Culture
Palani – 624 601
Tamilnadu
India
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