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- Title
Bharati Mukherjee's Depiction of Expatriate Sensibility and Cross-cultural Encounters.
- Authors
Chelliah, S.
- Abstract
This paper focuses on cross-cultural experiences through expatriation and the conflict arises in the novels of Bharati Mukherjee's Culture is the prime identity of human life. Her novels mainly focus on dislocation, alienation and assimilation in the alien land. Mukherjee's novel depicts the need for immigrants to choose their home and culture by constantly adjusting themselves to the newly adopted nation and by remaining in nostalgic state of being in their naïve land and shows how Mukherjee attempted to portray outsiders' lives in a sensible way. She tries to pen down cross-cultural conflicts in her novels and projects how her characters take control over their destiny.
- Subjects
MUKHERJEE, Bharati, 1940-2017; EXPATRIATION in literature; CULTURE conflict in literature; EMIGRATION &; immigration in literature; SOCIAL alienation in literature; IMMIGRANTS in literature; ASSIMILATION (Sociology) in literature
- Publication
Language in India, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 11, p41
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article