A Study on Cultural Displacement In Bharati Mukherjee’S Novels

Unveiling the Complexity of Cultural Identity in Bharati Mukherjee's Novels

Authors

  • Vasawa Dutta Swami Vivekananda University

Keywords:

cultural displacement, Bharati Mukherjee, novels, return to India, undermining national myths, migrant, cultural identity, Indian, complex understanding, mediated understanding

Abstract

In her first novel, The Tiger's Daughter(1971), Mukherjee uses the return to India of her nostalgic and 'homesick'Bengali Brahmin heroine as the context for undermining national myths oforigins and foundations. In other words, the migrant's return 'to recover herroots' and the stability of her cultural identity as an Indian is not equateduncritically with an unexamined sense of what being 'Indian' means. Instead,Mukherjee uses the migrant's moment of return to elaborate a much more complexand mediated understanding of national and cultural identity.

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Published

2014-04-01

How to Cite

[1]
“A Study on Cultural Displacement In Bharati Mukherjee’S Novels: Unveiling the Complexity of Cultural Identity in Bharati Mukherjee’s Novels”, JASRAE, vol. 7, no. 14, pp. 0–0, Apr. 2014, Accessed: Aug. 03, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://ignited.in/index.php/jasrae/article/view/5250

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 14 (2014): Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education (JASRAE)

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Articles

How to Cite

[1]
“A Study on Cultural Displacement In Bharati Mukherjee’S Novels: Unveiling the Complexity of Cultural Identity in Bharati Mukherjee’s Novels”, JASRAE, vol. 7, no. 14, pp. 0–0, Apr. 2014, Accessed: Aug. 03, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://ignited.in/index.php/jasrae/article/view/5250