Approaching 'home' in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness.

Crespo Gómez, Ana María

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Approaching 'home' in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness.

dc.contributor.author	Crespo Gómez, Ana María
dc.date.accessioned	2022-09-06T07:23:13Z
dc.date.available	2022-09-06T07:23:13Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description.abstract	The object of this study is to explore the relationship between 'home' and the decline of ethnic identity in the female characters of Bharati Mukherjee's collection of short stories Darkness (1985). This paper argues that while it is generally accepted that diaspora entails a questioning of a sense of belonging (Kennedy, 2014: 12), for Bharati Mukherjee, "the price that the immigrant willingly pays, and that the exile avoids, is the trauma of self-transformation" ("Two ways to belong in America", 1996). This article seeks to contextualize the Indian diaspora in its roots and routes, proving an inextricable link with gendering of the concept of 'home' in Bhattacharjee (1996). The introduction is underpinned by a theoretical framework on diaspora namely South Asian female migrants in the United States, and an analysis of the Indian concept of nation, from which the literary assessment departs.	es
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	18	es
dc.identifier.citation	International Journal of English Studies, Vol.22 (1), 2022	es
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.494731
dc.identifier.issn	1989-6131
dc.identifier.issn	1578-7044
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/123065
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Bharati Mukherjee	es
dc.subject	Diaspora	es
dc.subject	Home	es
dc.subject	Darkness	es
dc.subject	Feminization	es
dc.subject	Migration	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura::80 - Cuestiones generales relativas a la lingüística y literatura. Filología	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::3 - Ciencias sociales::39 - Etnología. Etnografía. Usos y costumbres. Tradiciones. Folklore::396 - Feminismo. Situación de la mujer	es
dc.title	Approaching 'home' in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness.	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es