Understanding Bharati Mukherjee / Ruth Maxey.
"Bharati Mukherjee was an important, bold, pioneering American writer. Born in Calcutta, India on July 27, 1940 to Sudhir Lal Mukherjee and Bina (née Chatterjee), a Bengali Brahmin couple, the young Bharati--the middle of three daughters--enjoyed a privileged early life. Mukherjee's father...
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Columbia, South Carolina :
University of South Carolina Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Understanding contemporary American literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Understanding Bharati Mukherjee
- India versus America: The tiger's daughter, Wife, and Days and nights in Calcutta
- Canada in Mukherjee's 1980s work: Darkness and The sorrow and the terror
- Immigration to the United States: The middleman and other stories and Jasmine
- Mukherjee's 1990s writing: The holder of the world and Leave it to me
- Novels for the twenty-first century: Desirable daughters, The tree bride, and Miss New India.