Conflicts and Confrontations in the Writings of Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri

Abstract

The India-born writer Bharti Mukherjee is one of the most widely known immigrant writers of America. From her childhood she was in touch with the western culture. Though, an Indian, she is brought up in western background. She is considered as an ethnic artist who looks beyond the immigrant’s sense of alienation and dislocation to trace ‘psychological transformation’ especially among women. Her main theme throughout her writing discusses the condition of Asian immigrants in North America, with particular attention to the changes taking place in South Asian Women in a new world.