IDENTITY CRISIS IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE’S THE TIGER’S DAUGHTER

Abstract

This paper focusses on the dilemma of immigrants, quest for self and feeling of alienation. Mukherjee also delineates the problem of immigrants and analyses the optimistic depiction of Indian expatriates. The main theme lies in her novel is immigration because of her strong bond with America, which she experienced by becoming the citizen of US. Writings of Bharati Mukherjee has achieved noteworthy acknowledgement where she depicts the experience of immigrants mainly of the South-Asian diaspora in North America. The varied immigrant experience in Bharti's novel focusses on the issues faced due to cultural identity. The geographical space is that in which immigrant faces the issues of identity and which Mukherjee depicts, not as the remembrance for one's own country of birth but as a requirement for the immigrants to produce a shelter for themselves. Her work reinforces the requirement for immigrants by continuously adopting the new land and also by continuously adjusting their relationship with their home land