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Understanding Bharati Mukherjee
- Title
- Understanding Bharati Mukherjee / Ruth Maxey.
- Author
- Maxey, Ruth
- Publication
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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- Description
- 148 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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 was a biochemist who ran a successful pharmaceutical company and supported a wide network of some fifty relatives all based within the same house in Ballygunge, south Calcutta. A precociously intelligent child, Mukherjee was always highly literate, stimulated by her parents to read and study. Consuming books in a quiet corner was often a refuge from the claustrophobic demands of traditional Indian joint family living, and she began writing stories as a young child. Mukherjee was inspired by the storytelling of her paternal grandmother and her mother. Indeed, she consistently paid tribute to Bina, who proudly defended and encouraged Mukherjee and her two sisters, Mira and Ranu, against a patriarchal backdrop of ridicule from Bina's older, female in-laws for having borne Sudhir no sons." --
- Series Statement
- Understanding contemporary American literature
- Uniform Title
- Understanding contemporary American literature.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [125]-139) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10864
- ISBN
- 9781643360003
- 1643360000
- LCCN
- 2019011940
- 40029402946
- OCLC
- 1076500541
- Author
- Maxey, Ruth, author.
- Title
- Understanding Bharati Mukherjee / Ruth Maxey.
- Publisher
- Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Understanding contemporary American literatureUnderstanding contemporary American literature.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [125]-139) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Maxey, Ruth, author. Understanding Bharati Mukherjee Coumbia, SC : The University of South Carolina Press, 2019 9781643360010 (DLC) 2019016516
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029402946
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10864