Role Of Women In Bharati Mukherjee

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“Women write differently not because they are different psychologically from men, but because their social experiences are different.” – Virginia Woolf
Bharati Mukherjee is the most accomplished diasporic writer. She is a prominent author of the Indian Writings in English who has induced the study of feminism in her writings. She is widely eulogized as the finest of her cohort of Indian writers in English. This paper aims to highlight the female protagonist who is insightful, anxious, luminous and inventive. Initially fatalities of self denial are in conflict with their internal selves because they ignore their real stance. Her major concern as creative writer is to find and preserve woman’s identity as daughter, wife, mother and most important of all as human beings. Concerns related to women are central to the vision of Mukherjee. The paper aims to discuss the victimization of women and their traumatic experience undergone by women characters in the select works of Bharati Mukherjee. The condition of women has gradually changed globally and the docile female has …show more content…

Iowa is the place where Jane encounters violent realities. She witnesses how the usually placid farmer, Harlan, turns violent on Bud Ripplemeyer, the banker from Iowa, after being turned down by him for a loan. He shoots Bud in the back and then commits suicide. Jane also hears the story of the nameless Osage man who tortures his wife to death and then “hangs himself in his machine shed” (Jasmine 156). Violence in Iowa, however, is presented in ambiguous dialectics. The narrator insinuates that despite these violent occurrences, the American people are resilient in their hopes and are optimistic about the future. Therefore, violence the trajectory of everyday life, with its usual ups and downs, unfolds in Jane’s life and she tries to carve out her identity in the image of her

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