Abstract
Bharati Mukherjee is a famous Indian born American non-fiction writer, short story writer and journalist. She is one of the well-known novelists of Indian Diaspora. Within a really short creative time, she has achieved enviable position in the field of English literature. In her works, she has very well depicted the Indian immigrant experience of her women characters both in her novels and short stories. In her works, she talks about the lives of Indian women immigrants in the U.S.A and their journey of transformation and adjustment of their lives and personalities. She tries to explore the themes of immigration as well as transformation. She portrays the various phases of her characters such as the phase of expatriation, the phase of transition and phase of immigration. She very well depicts how the cultural clash or cultural conflict between the west and the east leads to the psychological crisis in the minds of her women characters. In her novels, she has given importance to the feministic perspective of her women characters. Her women characters are the protagonist and hero of the novels. She has tried to portray how her female characters sacrifice their dreams, hopes, desires, wishes, what the various problems, fear, torture they face, and how they finally do their best to overcome from all the hurdles. She has drawn her female characters in various situations and circumstances.
Highlights
Bharati Mukherjee is an Indian – American- Canadian novelist and short story writer
We can say that in their process of immigration, they become the victims of psychological conflicts
The conflict of culture between the mother culture of the protagonist and the adopted culture of the protagonist leads the psychological conflict in the mind of the protagonist
Summary
Bharati Mukherjee is an Indian – American- Canadian novelist and short story writer. She was born on July 27, 1940 in Calcutta ( Kolkata), Bengal ( West Bengal), India in a wealthy Indian Hindu Bengali Brahmin family. The novelist goes beyond all the traditional roles of women and tries to portray her woman character as an individual who is independent and who has free will. These themes perform vital role and help in the psychoanalytic study of women characters in the novels of Bharati Mukherjee. Bharati Mukherjee’s first novel, The Tiger’s Daughter, deals with the story of Tara who is main protagonist of the novel.
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