Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Emmanuel S. Nelson
  • The inner world of Bharati Mukherjee : from expatriate to immigrant / Maya Manju Sharma
  • Bharati Mukherjee as autobiographer / Pramila Venkateswaran
  • A question of identity : where gender, race, and America meet in Bharati Mukherjee / Brinda Bose
  • Creating, preserving, destroying : violence in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine / Samir Dayal
  • Sociopolitical critique as indices and narrative codes in Bharati Mukherjee's Wife and Jasmine / Janet M. Powers
  • Telling her tale : narrative voice and gender roles in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine / Pushpa N. Parekh
  • The aesthetics of an (un)willing immigrant : Bharati Mukherjee's Days and nights in Calcutta and Jasmine / Anindyo Roy
  • Toward an investigation of the Subaltern in Bharati Mukherjee's The middleman and other stories and Jasmine / Alpana Sharma Knippling
  • "In the presence of history" : the representation of past and present Indias in Bharati Mukherjee's fiction / Debjani Banerjee
  • Born again American : the immigrant consciousness in Jasmine / Gurleen Grewal
  • Love and the Indian immigrant in Bharati Mukherjee's short fiction / Mitali R. Pati
  • The short fictions of Bernard Malamud and Bharati Mukherjee / Carole Stone.