Bharati Mukherjee Jasmine

The Theme of Alienation and Assimilation in the Novels of Bharati Mukherjee : A Socio-Literary perspective Chetana Pokhriyal Abstract: The words like Expatriate and Diaspora need no introduction in postcolonial literary scenario. Indian diaspora, today, has emerged with the multiplicity of histories, frame of culture, tradition, and a deep instinct for survival. Indian Diaspora, though find out more than 20 million members publicwide, survives in amongst home of origin and world of adoption. The process of survival of the diasporic man-to-man/ community in between the home of origin and the world of adoption is the transit undertaken in the whole process from craziness to final assimilation. Bharati Mukherjee, an Indian born Canadian/ American novelist, has make a deep impression on the literary canvass. Her novels, honestly, make the issues of her own heathenish location in West Bengal in India, her displacement (alienation) from her land of origin to Canada where she was simultaneously invisible as a source and overexposed as a racial minority and her final re-location (assimilation) to USA as a naturalised citizen.



For the writer in The Tigers Daughter and Wife, the dilemma of belongingness in these two novels is a matter of flux and agony, which explores the problem of nationality, location, individuation and historical memory in Canada. The cultural diaspora-isation what Stuart Mall calls label the beginning of the desire for the survival in the community of adoption. The story aims to explore her sense of alienation in Canada where life as an immigrant was unbearable, that forced her to make an effort towards the process of economic, social and cultural adjustment. Further, the paper will explore her desire for cultural spinal fusion in the new dwellings, which in fact, is her own inward voyage in The Middleman and Other Stories and Jasmine. Finally, she visualised assimilation as on end-product which implies in totality conforming to...If you want to sterilise a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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