Bharati Mukherjee

For some immigrants, such as Bharati Mukherjee, “America spoke to me—I married it—I embraced the demotion from expatriate aristocrat to immigrant nobody, surrendering those thousand years of ‘pure culture’…she [Mira Mukherjee] retained them all” (Mukherjee, 292), come to America and indulge in every aspect, fully immerse themselves in the “American experience.” While others, like Bharati’s sister…

Ponn Sindhuja. P II MA English Literature PG & Research Department of English Holy Cross College Trichy Use of Mythical Elements in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine Bharati Mukherjee was born in Calcutta and moved to Canada and then to U.S.A. She has written numerous articles. She has two non-fiction books, seven novels, and two short story collections to her credit. Mukherjee lives in America, she not only has practiced the American culture but has imbibed it. She is a diasporic writer, but any…

been through, the benefits of moving into a new country is for better education, more job opportunities, and being able to look into a new perspective in life. In Bharati Mukherjee's essay "Two Ways to Belong in America” talks about herself and her sister Mira on how they both have different perspectives about living in America. Mukherjee compares herself to Mira on how they…

JhumpaLahiri faithfully depicted identity crisis of the first and second generation expatriates in her first novel The Namesake. This crisis is dealt through immigrant’s families and their internal and socio-cultural relations with the people of the foreign country. It deals with the cultural identity crisis which is faced by both the generation of the immigrants. In the case of the first generation, the immigrants face dilemma, consciousness of being an outsider and cultural identity crisis due…

Jumpa Lahiri is the child of Indian immigrants who she was born in England and grew up in the USA. While she is living in the United States, she suffers of conflict of cultural in during her life. Hence, her fictions afoul with conflict of cultural and lost identity among the characters of her stories. The purpose of the paper is to study multicultural problem and searching of identity in Namesake novel and Lowland novel, and collection of short stories in Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri.…

Writer Ronnie Sharfman, wrote that she cloaked herself in another language when she left South Africa. She was leaving behind a country where she had dealt with injustice and now was immersing herself in a new culture and allowing it to heal her. Albeit that is undoubtedly excessively dramatic, I do understand that there are some people who come from places where the inconceivable transpires, who need to “leave behind and heal themselves,” as Sharfman writes. Respectively, my grandfather, who…

Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli moved to a small town in America shortly after they became husband and wife. Not only was the move a culture shock to Ashima but the idea of assimilating into the American culture was about as foreign as she was. Throughout her novel Lahiri paints the picture of what it was like for a Bengali foreigner to try and hold onto their culture in America. Along with trying to raise a Bengali family surrounded by ever pressing American influence. In the novel The Namesake by…

"The Management of Grief" by Bharati Mukherjee is a story based on a true story. Which happened in 1985 bombing attack of Air India Flight 182. This story uncovers the sensational, the growth of the fundamental character who seek to deal with her despondency all through the story.Management of Grief” is rather ironic than straightforward. when a life-changing event happens to a person it affects them physiologically and emotionally, in this Bharti Mukherjee is demonstrating her perspective…

In “Management of Grief” by Bharati Mukherjee, there are quite a bit of characters but one stood out from the rest and that was Pam. Pam is Kusum’s daughter who has decided to not follow the traditional characteristics of her family. Bharati Mukherjee develops Pam as an interesting character by giving her contrasting traits. She has contrasting traits in by being westernized woman versus acting in traditionalism. To display her westernized traits it is done by her actions and appearance. “She…

the world, it’s still significant for the following reasons. For starters, this story is about how two sisters from India come to America not really knowing what to expect. The most popular topic between these two sisters is government. One sister, Bharati, ends up loving America and adapting 100% to the American culture. While on the other hand, her sister Mira feels the exact opposite because she feels “betrayed”. Both scenarios are due to the fact that although they come from the same family…