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Indian-American writer

Bharati Mukherjee
Speaking at the US Ambassador's residence in Israel, June 11,
Born	Bharati Mukherjee ()July 27, Calcutta, Bengal Province, British India (present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
Died	January 28, () (aged&#;76) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Professor novelist essayist short story writer author fiction writer non-fiction writer
Nationality	Indian American Canadian
Genre	Novels, short stories, essays, travel literature, journalism.
Subjects	Post-colonial Anglophone fiction, Asian American fiction, autobiographical narratives, memoirs, American culture, immigration history, reformation and nationhood in the '90s, multiculturalism vs. BBC World Service: He considered writing to be a harmless activity and believed that at the end of the two years, she would return to an arranged marriage and a traditional life. When Bharati Mukherjee was eight, her family moved to England. I remember reading some stories of hers even earlier, in The Middleman and Other Stories, and could see that she wanted to mock a familiar idea of Indian masculinity and wished to project a notion of female resistance. Indian American Canadian. mongrelization, fiction writing, autobiography writing, and the form and theory of fiction.
Notable works	Jasmine
Spouse	Clark Blaise

Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, – January 28, ) was an Indian American-Canadian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.

She was the author of a number of novels and short story collections, as well as works of nonfiction.^[1]

Early life and education

Of IndianHinduBengali Brahmin origin, Mukherjee was born in present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India during British rule. She later travelled with her parents to Europe after Independence, only returning to Calcutta in the early s.

There she attended the Loreto School. She received her B.A. from the University of Calcutta in as a student of Loreto College, and subsequently earned her M.A. from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in ^[2] She next travelled to the United States to study at the University of Iowa. She received her M.F.A.

Bharati mukherjee biography of rorys baby In her fiction, Mukherjee explored the experience and dilemmas of being an immigrant and the culture shock and alienation it entailed. Helen Simpson. Manage Subscription. She lived the first eight years of her life with her extended family - more than thirty people, not including servants and bodyguards.

from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in and her PhD in from the department of Comparative Literature.^[3]

Career

After more than a decade living in Montreal and Toronto in Canada, Mukherjee and her husband, Clark Blaise, returned to the United States. She wrote of the decision in "An Invisible Woman," published in a issue of Saturday Night.

Mukherjee and Blaise co-authored Days and Nights in Calcutta (). They also wrote the book, The Sorrow and the Terror regarding the Air India Flight tragedy.^[4]

In addition to writing many works of fiction and non-fiction, Mukherjee taught at McGill University, Skidmore College, Queens College, and City University of New York before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley.

Her Story Manage Subscription. When Mukherjee was eight years old, her father moved the nuclear family to London and Basel for three years. My Reads. And so I sent a cable to my father saying 'by the time you get this daddy I'll already be Mrs Blaise!

In Mukherjee won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her collection The Middleman and Other Stories.^[5] In a interview with Ameena Meer, Mukherjee stated that she considered herself an American writer, and not an Indian expatriate writer.^[6]

Mukherjee died due to complications of rheumatoid arthritis and takotsubo cardiomyopathy on January 28, , in Manhattan at the age of ^[7] She was survived by her husband and son.

Her other son, Bart, predeceased her in ^[8]

Works

Novels

Short story collections

Memoir

Non-fiction

Awards and honors

Related novels

References

Further reading

• Abcarian, Richard and Marvin Klotz.
  Bharati mukherjee biography of rorys baby father Women Writers. Memoir [ edit ]. External links [ edit ]. Whatsapp Twitter Facebook Linkedin.

  "Bharati Mukherjee." In Literature: The Human Experience, 9th edition. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, –

• Alter, Stephen and Wimal Dissanayake (ed.). "Nostalgia by Bharati Mukherjee." The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories. New Delhi, Middlesex, New York: Penguin Books, 28–
• Kerns-Rustomji, Roshni. "Bharati Mukherjee." In The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 5th edition, Vol.

  E. Paul Lauter and Richard Yarborough (eds.). New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., –

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"Of Foreigners and Fetishes: A Reading of Recent South Asian American Fiction", Samar The South Asian American Generation (Fall/Winter ): 52–

• Maxey, Ruth (). Understanding Bharati Mukherjee. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;
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  South Asian Atlantic literature, . Edinburgh University Press.

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• New, W. H., ed. "Bharati Mukerjee." In Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, –
• Selvadurai, Shyam (ed.). "Bharati Mukherjee: The Management of Grief." Story-Wallah: A Celebration of South Asian Fiction. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 91–

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