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Bharati Mukherjee (born July 27, 1940) is an Indian-American fiction writer and university professor currently teaching at the English Department of the University of California, Berkeley [1]. Her novels and short stories are mainly about the immigrant experience.Born in Calcutta, India into a wealthy family, Mukherjee was given the chance to receive a university education at home, which she continued in the United States and in Canada. It was there that she met Canadian writer Clark Blaise. The couple have been married since 1963, and they have two sons.
Mukherjee's stories revolve around the culture clash experienced by Indians who have emigrated to North America but still have difficulty acculturating. For example, in "A Father" (from her 1985 collection Darkness), a religious HinduThis article is about the Hindu religion; for other meanings of the word, see Hindu (disambiguation). Aum, the most sacred syllable and quintessential symbol of Hinduism, represents the first manifestation of the unmanifest Brahman. Hinduism Santana Dharm's hopes for a harmonious family life are shattered when he learns that his grown-up but still single daughter has had artificial insemination because she wants a baby but rejects men. In "The Lady from LucknowLucknow is the capital city of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It had a population of 2,207,340 in 2001. It has a literacy rate of 68. It is the second largest urban centre in Uttar Pradesh after Kanpur. History Lucknow's history begins with its elevat" (in the same volume), the bored wife of an Indian academic adapts to the American way of life by committing adultery with an unexciting middle-aged WASPAlternate meaning: Wasp (disambiguation WASP is an acronym which stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant''. The term is generally considered to have been coined by E. Digby Baltzell as a convenient shorthand in his 1964 book The Protestant Establishment:.
Mukherjee's most successful and popular work of fiction so far is her novel JasmineJasmine ( 1989) is a novel by Bharati Mukherjee set in the present about a young Indian woman in the United States who, trying to adapt to the American way of life in order to be able to survive, changes identities several times. Jasmine's arranged marria ( 1989See also 1988 in literature, other events of 1989, 1990 in literature, list of years in literature. Events February 24 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie. New Books " Geek Lov), in which a young Indian woman becomes an illegal immigrant to the United States, acculturates by taking on a series of different identities, and ends up as the mother in a patchwork family .
Blaise and Mukherjee have also co-authored a travel memoir, Days and Nights in Calcutta.
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