Immigration and Cognitive Conflict in Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters

Abstract

Bharati Mukherjee, a Bengali Indian-born American settler is known for her diasporic novels.  Her novels mainly explore the migrated women, their struggles, cultural conflicts and identity crisis.  Her early novels expressed her personal struggles later on expanded general issues of immigrated women.  Among her several writings this article deals with Desirable daughters, one of three novels which is considered as three sisters.  This paper throws light on the protagonist’s movement to America from India and how its character gradually Americanizes.