Approaching 'home' in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness.
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 question...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Murcia |
| Repositorio: | DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digitum.um.es:10201/123065 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.494731 http://hdl.handle.net/10201/123065 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Bharati Mukherjee Diaspora Home Darkness Feminization Migration CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura::80 - Cuestiones generales relativas a la lingüística y literatura. Filología CDU::3 - Ciencias sociales::39 - Etnología. Etnografía. Usos y costumbres. Tradiciones. Folklore::396 - Feminismo. Situación de la mujer |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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