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Blend of Fact and Fiction in the Novels of Bharati Mukherjee

Saranya P., Research Scholar and Dr. R. Lakshmi

Abstract

This paper is an in-depth analysis of portrayal of women in the novels of Bharati Mukherjee. Most of her women characters are from India who migrates to America for a specific purpose. The first two of her novels deals with expatriates and the rest with immigrant experiences in the new world. Bharati Mukherjee has acquired a strong place among the diasporic writers through her writings which portrays the sufferings and survival of immigrant women. Mukherjee’s women immigrants undergo a major and essential change in the process of living in the adopted homeland. All these are beautifully woven through her protagonists making them bold and assertive to face any kind of situation in the new land.

Keywords:immigrants, expatriates, multi-dimensional, South Asian women, diaspora

Bharati Mukherjee as an American Writer

Bharati Mukherjee is an example for the expatriate writers who claimed that they were Canadians or Americans or British Asians rather than Indians. She called herself, ‘an American writer, in the American mainstream, trying to extent it. This is a vitally important statement for me – I am not an Indian writer, not an exile, not an expatriate. I am an immigrant; my investment is in the American reality, not the Indian” (Narayan 52). Bharati Mukherjee has created a fair place for herself in the American literature through her contribution to English writing. She is one of the few prominent Indian American immigrant writers who have not only earned a good name in the U.S. but has also contributed considerably to the third world literature.

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P. Saranya, Ph.D. Research Scholar
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sharnyaa@gmail.com

R. Lakshmi, Ph.D. Research Guide
drlakshmi@veltechuniv.edu.in

Department of English
Vel Tech Dr. RR & Dr. SR University
Avadi
Chennai 60062
Tamil Nadu
India

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