The twelve essays that form this book, first published in 1993, interpret Bharati Mukherjee’s oeuvre from a variety of critical perspectives. The authors’ approaches range from the biographical to the poststructuralist, from cultural analysis to comparative commentary to deconstructive reading. Such diversity in the contributors’ theoretical stances and interpretive strategies enables this collection of essays to serve a key purpose: to offer not only multiple but conflicting perspectives on Mukherjee’s art and achievement.
1. Introduction Emmanuel S. Nelson
2. The Inner World of Bharati
Mukherjee: From Expatriate to Immigrant Maya Manju Sharma
3. Bharati
Mukherjee as Autobiographer Pramila Venkateswaran
4. A Question of Identity:
Where Gender, Race and America Meet in Bharati Mukherjee Brinda Bose
5.
Creating, Preserving, Destroying: Violence in Bharati Mukherjees Jasmine
Samir Dayal
6. Sociopolitical Critique as Indices and Narrative Codes in
Bharati Mukherjees Wife and Jasmine Janet M. Powers
7. Telling Her Tale:
Narrative Voice and Gender Roles in Bharati Mukherjees Jasmine Pushpa N.
Parekh
8. The Aesthetics of an (Un)willing Immigrant: Bharati Mukherjees
Days and Nights in Calcutta and Jasmine Anindyo Roy
9. Toward an
Investigation of the Subaltern in Bharati Mukherjees The Middleman and Other
Stories and Jasmine Alpana Sharma Knippling
10. In the Presence of History:
The Representation of Past and Present Indias in Bharati Mukherjees Fiction
Debjani Banerjee
11. Born Again American: The Immigrant Consciousness in
Jasmine Gurleen Grewal
12. Love and Indian Immigrant in Bharati Mukherjees
Short Fiction Mitali R. Pati
13. The Short Fictions of Bernard Malamud and
Bharati Mukherjee Carole Stone
Emmanuel S. Nelson
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