Abstract
The present study explores and analyses the existential perspective in Bharati Mukherjee’s novel The Holder of the World; she tries to represent the fluid nature of immigrants due to frequent dislocations and relocations, which facilitate the characters to transform and assimilate into a new environment. The protagonist, Hannah Easton, discards nostalgic feelings and celebrates the latest opportunities in a liberal environment. Being a fearless, brave, and bold, spirited woman, she chooses her ways of life freely and accepts the consequences frankly. Bharati Mukherjee, one of the path breaking Indian American novelists and short story writers, has constantly made efforts to voice the immigrant experience of women. Hannah initially suffers from cultural shock, but being resourceful establishes her authentic existence by understanding the new environment utilising her full potential via free choices.
Highlights
2017 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
In 1951 the family returned to Calcutta, and Mukherjee joined the English – speaking Loreto Convent School, run by Irish nuns. Her parents supported her in all her intellectual efforts, and as a ‘true feminist,’ her mother guided and shaped her perceptions as an individual right from early childhood
She learned from her mother “the courage not to be bogged down by the cultural mores of the Indian society. Her mother was the first true feminist she had met in life
Summary
2017 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. Shortly after independence, at the age of eight, she lived with her family in London and Switzerland for three and a half years, becoming fluent in English. The present work attempts to explore Mukherjee’s novel The Holder of the World in context with existentialist philosophy and investigate the existential perspective where there is a tendency in the characters to work with freedom and to exist in their own way.
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