Homing Sorrow: Bharati Mukherjee's "The Management of Grief" as Metadiasporic Narrative and Inscription of Political Empowerment

This paper reads Bharati Mukherjee's short story "The Management of Grief" as an uncompromised critique of Canadian Multiculturalism at its early stage in the 1980s. Without neglecting the crucially humanist component of Mukherjee's investment in writing this story, the article d...

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Author: Alonso Breto, Isabel
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Publication Date:2017
Country:España
Institution:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
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Keyword:Migració de pobles
Canadà
Multiculturalisme
Migrations of nations
Canada
Multiculturalism
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spelling Homing Sorrow: Bharati Mukherjee's "The Management of Grief" as Metadiasporic Narrative and Inscription of Political EmpowermentAlonso Breto, IsabelMigració de poblesCanadàMulticulturalismeMigrations of nationsCanadaMulticulturalismThis paper reads Bharati Mukherjee's short story "The Management of Grief" as an uncompromised critique of Canadian Multiculturalism at its early stage in the 1980s. Without neglecting the crucially humanist component of Mukherjee's investment in writing this story, the article demonstrates how, through subtle strategies of representation, "The Management of Grief" presents Canada as a country where whiteness-as-power is pervasive, and where ethnic minorities are perceived by mainstream society as exogenous, and made to feel as such. Together with this, the story as an archetypical representation of the predicament of diasporas, understood, pace Vijay Mishra and others, in the sense of the diasporic condition perceived as dominated by melancholia. The story evokes the diaspora experience in several other ways, most notably with its emphasis on the in-between status of such communities in an identitarian, affective and political sense. The analysis eventually focuses on how the story underscores and subtly illuminates the process of a political empowerment, an awareness-raising process which, accompanied by a coming-into-political-agency, marks a turning point in the increasingly relevant political role played by diasporas within the multicultural nation state.Universidad de Zaragoza2018201820172018info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion19 p.application/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/121479Articles publicats en revistes (Llengües i Literatures Modernes i Estudis Anglesos)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)EspañolReproducció del document publicat a: http://www.miscelaneajournal.net/index.php/misc/article/view/351Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2017, vol. 56, p. 13-31(c) Alonso Breto, Isabel, 2017info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:2445/1214792026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Homing Sorrow: Bharati Mukherjee's "The Management of Grief" as Metadiasporic Narrative and Inscription of Political Empowerment
title Homing Sorrow: Bharati Mukherjee's "The Management of Grief" as Metadiasporic Narrative and Inscription of Political Empowerment
spellingShingle Homing Sorrow: Bharati Mukherjee's "The Management of Grief" as Metadiasporic Narrative and Inscription of Political Empowerment
Alonso Breto, Isabel
Migració de pobles
Canadà
Multiculturalisme
Migrations of nations
Canada
Multiculturalism
title_short Homing Sorrow: Bharati Mukherjee's "The Management of Grief" as Metadiasporic Narrative and Inscription of Political Empowerment
title_full Homing Sorrow: Bharati Mukherjee's "The Management of Grief" as Metadiasporic Narrative and Inscription of Political Empowerment
title_fullStr Homing Sorrow: Bharati Mukherjee's "The Management of Grief" as Metadiasporic Narrative and Inscription of Political Empowerment
title_full_unstemmed Homing Sorrow: Bharati Mukherjee's "The Management of Grief" as Metadiasporic Narrative and Inscription of Political Empowerment
title_sort Homing Sorrow: Bharati Mukherjee's "The Management of Grief" as Metadiasporic Narrative and Inscription of Political Empowerment
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Alonso Breto, Isabel
author Alonso Breto, Isabel
author_facet Alonso Breto, Isabel
author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Migració de pobles
Canadà
Multiculturalisme
Migrations of nations
Canada
Multiculturalism
topic Migració de pobles
Canadà
Multiculturalisme
Migrations of nations
Canada
Multiculturalism
description This paper reads Bharati Mukherjee's short story "The Management of Grief" as an uncompromised critique of Canadian Multiculturalism at its early stage in the 1980s. Without neglecting the crucially humanist component of Mukherjee's investment in writing this story, the article demonstrates how, through subtle strategies of representation, "The Management of Grief" presents Canada as a country where whiteness-as-power is pervasive, and where ethnic minorities are perceived by mainstream society as exogenous, and made to feel as such. Together with this, the story as an archetypical representation of the predicament of diasporas, understood, pace Vijay Mishra and others, in the sense of the diasporic condition perceived as dominated by melancholia. The story evokes the diaspora experience in several other ways, most notably with its emphasis on the in-between status of such communities in an identitarian, affective and political sense. The analysis eventually focuses on how the story underscores and subtly illuminates the process of a political empowerment, an awareness-raising process which, accompanied by a coming-into-political-agency, marks a turning point in the increasingly relevant political role played by diasporas within the multicultural nation state.
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