Annotated Bibliography Memoirs Blaise, Clark, and Bharati Mukherjee. Days and Nights in Calcutta. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977. Print This autobiographical narrative is a collection Bharati Mukherjee’s experience returning to India with her Canadian husband who is also the co-author. They both separately wrote about their experiences in the country and the daily life for it’s people. The book focuses on these two contrasting points of view and cultural backgrounds ("Days and Nights in Calcutta , Bharati Mukherjee”). It is rated four stars out of five on Amazon.com. Non-Fiction Blaise, Clark, and Bharati Mukherjee. The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy. Markham, Ont., Canada: Viking, 1987. Print. Written with her …show more content…
The India she returns to; however, is much more violent than when she left. She is forced to witness her home tear itself apart in a very frightening way. Conflict between classes and cultures drive the novels story forward in its purpose and causes the main character to feel lost in her own home ("Tiger's Daughter Summary”). Reviews of this novel have rated it with 3.29 stars out of five on GoodReads.com. -—. The Tree Bride: A Novel. New York: Theia, 2004. Print. A sequel of Desirable Daughters, The Tree Bride continues the story from an East Bengali ancestor’s point of view. While trying to piece together parts of her identity that remain undiscovered to the narrator. She looks to Tara Lata’s own dramatic transformation to help answer her questions. All of this occurs while the narrator is hoping to reconcile with he divorced husband and the narration flows through time and settings (“Goodreads"). Although not as popular as its predecessor, the novel earns a respectable 3.12 stars out of five on GoodReads.com. —-. Wife. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
“Like many immigrant offspring I felt intense pressure to be two things, loyal to the old world and fluent in the new, approved of on either side of the hyphen” (Lahiri, My Two lives). Jhumpa Lahiri, a Pulitzer Prize winner, describes herself as Indian-American, where she feels she is neither an Indian nor an American. Lahiri feels alienated by struggling to live two lives by maintaining two distinct cultures. Lahiri’s most of the work is recognized in the USA rather than in India where she is descents from (the guardian.com). Lahiri’s character’s, themes, and imagery in her short stories and novels describes the cultural differences of being Indian American and how Indian’s maintain their identity when moved to a new world. Lahiri’s inability to feel accepted within her home, inability to be fully American, being an Indian-American, and the difference between families with same culture which is reflected in one of her short stories “Once in a Lifetime” through characterization and imagery.
Her realization that she is not alone in her oppression brings her a sense of freedom. It validates her emerging thoughts of wanting to rise up and shine a light on injustice. Her worries about not wanting to grow up because of the harsh life that awaits her is a common thought among others besides the people in her community. As she makes friends with other Indians in other communities she realizes the common bonds they share, even down to the most basic such as what they eat, which comforts her and allows her to empathize with them.
basis of the plot and themes of this novel. The fond memories she possessed of her mother and the harsh ones of her father are reflected in the thoughts and
The young girl depicted in the red tree struggles to find her sense of belonging within her own world in her everyday life. Billy struggles to belong with his father and in his neighborhood
Bharati Mukherjee is a professor of creative writing, in the United States of America, who had
Alexie, Sherman. The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. New York: Hachette Book Group, 2007. Print.
Mukherjee then begins to compare and contrast her sister in a subject-by-subject organization. She states, “…she clings passionately to her Indian citizenship and hopes to go home to India when she...
Kumar. "Personal Life, Comfort, Enjoyment in America Vs. India." RedBus2US RSS. Web. 9 Mar. 2014. .
The novel is told from the point of view of a thirteen-year-old girl, Lakshmi, taking place in an isolated village in Nepal and red-light district in India. While the author balances some despair
Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian. Stuttgart: Klett Sprachen, 2009. Print.
Even though HHSC is such a wonderful place that provided me with very fond memories, relationships that will last forever, and has shaped the person I am today, there are a few things I would add or change. One being clubs. I do like the four clubs we have but instead of each camper being in only two clubs I think every camper should participate in three clubs instead of only two. Instead of having hour long clubs like we do now, having three 40 minute clubs seems more ideal. This will ensure that the campers are focused and are more motivated in what they are doing. I felt like last year when my fellow counselors and I ran India club we had so much wasted time that could have been used on other tasks. Having three clubs periods that lasted
Spending her early years in Pune and Mumbai, she had her first education in the Cathedral and John Connon School. After some years of education in Delhi and England, she joined creative writing as though to focus all her attention on the vigorous pursuit of shaping her creative talent. Built around the fate of a few powerless individuals, Kiran Desai's second novel The Inheritance of Loss manages to explore human relations from a varied angle. The “Human Relationship” is what a writer is involved with. Person to person and person to society relationships-these are two primary concerns of a certain writer.
Rohinton Mistry is a writer of Indian Diaspora who possesses a double identity. By birth, he is an Indian and settled down in Canada, despite everything, he expounds his country through his anecdotal works and discusses the agony of immigrants. He throws light on discrimination, brutality, and injuries confronted by the Dalits in rural India. This paper mainly concentrates on how Rohinton Mistry's second novel, A Fine Balance mirrors the truth of India, the political issues of debasement, discrimination, oppression, and abuse experienced by the Untouchables in India. It additionally gives an understanding into rustic India, concentrating on the unfairness, savagery, and ghastliness of injury of Dalits in India along communal and religious
The uncivilized character of Indian men exhibited violence that now has turned to the silences many of them unwillingly endure years later. The topic of the Indian partition is a controversial topic, it was a time where women were symbolized as national subjects, and faced the horrific procurement of religious catastrophe. The confusion of not understanding such mental lapse is the silence is best depicted through children in the movie, 1947 Earth. It is the battle Lenny and writer Butalia deal with, as Butalia paints a vivid picture of silence though her oral history, The Other Side of Silence. Butalia recounts the silence that lies within an interviewee’s memory, as she recounts, “‘I cannot ...
This total idea of challenging and creating a new identity may seem quite a utopian concept, but it is not so impossible. The present paper will illustrate the writings of Mridula Garg and Arundhati Roy. The characters in their work are not extraordinary and utopian, but ordinary people like us whom we can come across in our day to day life. Here for the purpose of analysis, Garg’s three short stories have been chosen. They are: Hari Bindi, Sath Saal, Ki Aurat and Wo Dusri.