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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Autor: Crespo Gómez, Ana María
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Murcia
Repositorio:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.494731
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Palabra clave:Bharati Mukherjee
Diaspora
Home
Darkness
Feminization
Migration
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spelling Approaching 'home' in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness.Crespo Gómez, Ana MaríaBharati MukherjeeDiasporaHomeDarknessFeminizationMigrationCDU::8- Lingüística y literatura::80 - Cuestiones generales relativas a la lingüística y literatura. FilologíaCDU::3 - Ciencias sociales::39 - Etnología. Etnografía. Usos y costumbres. Tradiciones. Folklore::396 - Feminismo. Situación de la mujerThe 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.Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones202220222022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdf18application/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.494731http://hdl.handle.net/10201/123065reponame:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murciainstname:Universidad de MurciaInglésSin financiación externa a la Universidadinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/oai:digitum.um.es:10201/1230652026-05-27T12:40:41Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Approaching 'home' in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness.
title Approaching 'home' in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness.
spellingShingle Approaching 'home' in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness.
Crespo Gómez, Ana María
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
title_short Approaching 'home' in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness.
title_full Approaching 'home' in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness.
title_fullStr Approaching 'home' in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness.
title_full_unstemmed Approaching 'home' in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness.
title_sort Approaching 'home' in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness.
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Crespo Gómez, Ana María
author Crespo Gómez, Ana María
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv 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
topic 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
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