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100 1 $aAlam, Fakrul.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88665286
245 10 $aBharati Mukherjee /$cFakrul Alam.
260 $aNew York :$bTwayne Publishers ;$aLondon :$bPrentice Hall International,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axiv, 164 pages :$bportrait ;$c22 cm.
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aTwayne's United States authors series ;$vTUSAS 653
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 155-159) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tIntroduction --$gCh. 2.$tAn Exile's Perspective on "Home" --$gCh. 3.$tThe Aloofness of Expatriation --$gCh. 4.$tThe Exuberance of Immigration --$gCh. 5.$tA Hunger for Connectedness.
520 $aOne of a new generation of Indian writers who have chosen to settle in the West and write in the English language, Bharati Mukherjee has staked a claim for herself as an "Ellis Island writer," an American storyteller writing about the lives of new migrants to the United States.
520 8 $aAuthor of the novels The Tiger's Daughter (1972), Wife (1975), Jasmine (1989), and The Holder of the World (1993), as well as short-fiction collections and volumes of nonfiction, Mukherjee can be seen as either a leading writer of the Indian diaspora (along with Salman Rushdie, Rhonton Mistry, and Vikram Seth) or a prominent Asian-American writer (in the company of Maxine Hong Kingston and Diana Chang). By describing herself as an "Ellis Island writer," however, Mukherjee is putting herself in the tradition best exemplified by Bernard Malamud.
520 8 $aMukherjee has taken fiction in new directions and can claim to be a major ethnic woman writer of contemporary America.
520 8 $aIn this thorough, penetrating study of Bharati Mukherjee's published work, Fakrul Alam argues that although the author may see herself as an American writer, the circumstances of her birth, upbringing, and education in India, as much as her marriage to a North American and her education and career on the American continent, are the contexts indispensable to an understanding of her fiction.
520 8 $aAt her best, Alam concludes, Mukherjee has been able to bring to her firsthand experience of exile, expatriation, and immigration her considerable narrative skills and a lively imagination to produce memorable and colorful tales of the excitement as well as the traumas of adjusting to a new world.
600 10 $aMukherjee, Bharati$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113456
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113573
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zIndia$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113602
650 0 $aEast Indian Americans in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96010067
651 0 $aIndia$xIn literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104409
830 0 $aTwayne's United States authors series ;$vTUSAS 653.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83702482
852 00 $bbar$hPR9499.3.M77$iZ516 1996