ISOLATION AND ASSIMILATION IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE’S NOVELS
Keywords:
Alienation, loneliness, cultural conflictAbstract
Alienation is the problem that almost every other individually who is living abroad, who is living away from his roots faces. The struggle to survive in that alien atmosphere becomes very difficult for these people. Bharati Mukherjee has done a tremendous job in bringing out the concept of isolation in her characters. It through her characters that she is trying to explain the pain of an immigrant. This paper shall read all her novels in a brief manner showing a glimpse of Bharati Mukherjee’s treatment of Alienation and Assimilation in her novels.
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