• Dr. PIU SARKAR

Bharati Mukherjee holds an esteemed position among the diasporic writers of Indian origin with her remarkable contributions like Jasmine, The Tiger’s Daughter, Wife, Desirable Daughter etc. Her literary works are firmly based on the immigrants’ experience in a completely alien land, the intense pain of dislocation and displacement from one’s homeland towards adopting and adapting the foreign country and its different culture. Although Bharati Mukherjee was born and brought up in India, she spent most of her literary career in USA and Canada. Naturally she can well connect her own experience with the feelings and sensibilities of the immigrants who suddenly feel themselves uprooted from their homeland but find it too difficult to adjust and assimilate in the new ambience, new culture and standards of society. Bharati Mukherjee’s works attract the readers’ attention for the authentic overtone, realistic description, penetrating observatory power while her portrayal of characters evokes originality in their Indianness and their feelings so genuinely expressed as to mesmerize the readers in the narrative. This paper intends to highlight Bharati Mukherjee’s portrayal of the immigrants, their intense feelings of loneliness in the present situation, nostalgia towards past and the problems of identity in connecting the two disparate cultures.

Immigration, Identity Crisis, Cultural Dissonance, Social Mainstreaming, Cross-cultural Conflict, Dilemma, Trauma, Native Culture, Host Culture

"DIASPORIC EXPERIENCE IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE’S SELECT FICTIONAL WORKS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 1, page no.e51-e60, January-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2201408.pdf

"DIASPORIC EXPERIENCE IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE’S SELECT FICTIONAL WORKS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 1, page no. ppe51-e60, January-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2201408.pdf