Re)Location of Women in Diasporic Condition A Study of Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters

Abstract

Abstract

As a writer of diaspora, Mukherjee’s fictions are centric to the question of nostalgia for a lost home, disillusionment of expatriation, fragmentation of the self, exuberance of immigration, assimilation, cultural translation and negotiation. Mukherjee’s sixth novel Desirable Daughters (2002) marks a new trend in her writings. In an interview with Dave Weich, Mukherjee says, The authentic Strategy for this book was also using the width of the field of history, geography, Diaspora gender, ethnicity, language - rather than the old fashioned, long clean throw.