Bharati Mukherjee

In Desirable Daughters, Bharati Mukherjee uses the protagonist, Tara’s point of view, the flashbacks of her past specifically her childhood, and evocative diction in order to reveal how Tara and her sisters integrate their Bengali culture and Western culture which results in them defying the true ideals of a Bengali Society. Throughout the novel we are provided with various pieces of information simply through Tara, the protagonist’s point of view. We as readers embark on this journey where Tara struggles with integrating the culture she was born into with the culture she’s currently living in. Tara highlights different cultures and situations that she and her sisters and ex-husband Bish are presented with. For example, in Indian culture especially…

The Management of Love Throughout history many authors have used their own experiences and cultures in their works. “Management of Grief” by Bharati Mukherjee incorporates her own experiences and background to make the story accurate and the character interesting. Erdrich also uses her own background in her story “Love Medicine” to show how Native Americans saw the world. Erdrich and Mukherjees writing is influenced by their social and cultural backgrounds as well as their own personal…

Women’s Independence Women’s dependence on men is an obstacle for them to overcome if they want to be independent and have agency in their own lives. This is an issue which is addressed in both Dorothy Allison’s Bastard out of Carolina and Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine. Each novel features female characters whose dependence on men hurts them. These women strive to be independent, though some are more successful at achieving this goal that others. In Bastard out of Carolina Bone and Anney and are…

Bharati Mukherjeeoccupies a very important place among the diasporic writers.The circumstances of her birth, upbringing, education in India, marriage to a North American and her education and career on the American continent are the indispensable contexts to understand her fiction. Sheis a prominent Indian American immigrant novelist. This paper aims to study how Bharati Mukherjee deals with a woman’s quest for identity in her novel Desirable Daughters.She presents the various circumstances in…

Everyone has a kind of culture that helps form their views on the world. In many incidents culture is the main cause for the opinions formed to describe how people feel about the world. Although culture may not play a major role in some lives, it does heavily influence many others standpoint on situations. However when a person disregards their culture their viewpoint on the world is most liable to change at any point and time. In the personal essay “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati…

Keshawn White Jiles 5th Period 5th Jan. 2018 Identity Crisis Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee details a story about the identity alteration of a Punjabi girl from India. The protagonist of the novel, Jyoti, conveys the story from her point of view when she is 24 years old. At the time she is pregnant with Bud Ripplemeyer’s baby. Jyoti narrates the novel through flashbacks and retellings of her experiences. She tells the story of her experiences in America as she becomes her own individual. When she…

Who? What? When? Why? How? These are the basic questions to ask yourself when you are trying to interpret or analyze a writing of essay. I have read three essays recently that I will analyze for you. Doing this I will help not only you understand the essay, but help myself dig further into the authors meaning. Essay number one is called “Two Ways to Belong in America” written by Bharati Mukherjee. Essay number two is called “Buying a House” written by Sean Prentiss. Last but not least essay…

In Bharati Mukherjee’s personal essay, Two Ways to Belong in America, Mira claims that she sustained to her Indian culture and didn’t change the way she viewed America. Bharati said that her sister, Mira, “After 36 years as a legal immigrant in this country, she clings passionately to her Indian citizenship” and she feels “some kind of irrational attachment to India” that she doesn’t have toward America (Bharati Mukherjee p.70-71). This indicates that she sustained her Indian heritage even…

Who is Jasmine? Bharati Mukherjee narrates Jasmine the main character in her novel, a female protagonist, as an outsider that strive to shape her identity to fit in mainstream of American society on her journey. Fortunately, Jasmine encounter confrontation that shifts her identity in different directions of her life. Instead of rejecting these names that are given to her by various individuals, she seeks to create a harmonious relationship with those identities. Thus, Mukerjee makes this novel…

one who understands this. Bharati Mukherjee, an American writer of Indian descent, understands this all too well. Having immigrated to North America from Calcutta after India achieved independence from Britain, her integration into Canadian and American society is a frequent subject in her writing. In her essay ‘Imagining Homelands’, Mukherjee discusses the four reason a person moves from one country to another (expatriation, exile, immigration, and reparation) and how all four are equally part…