IDENTITY BEYOND HOME AND EXILE IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE'S THE TIGER'S DAUGHTER


Susheel Kumar, Dr. Md Iftikar Ahmed
Sant Baba Bhag Singh University , Village Khiala, Jalandhar Punjab 144 030 India
Abstract
Bharati Mukherjee is one of the most renowned and prolific English writers. Her prose narratives mainly concentrate on diaspora, acculturation, nostalgia, otherness and identity. The aim of this paper is to evaluate identity beyond home and exile in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter and the commitment with the diversity of dilemmas that females are facing today. It also highlights how the concerns of migration, hybridization, in-betweenness marginalization, cultural conflicts and potential alterations dominate through Indian woman’s diasporic understanding. The article investigates Tara’s predicaments and cross-cultural inconsistencies and dichotomies following upon transformative occurrences in female identity. The narrative also discloses how Tara Banerjee is exposed to exile, isolation and lack of recognition both in her homeland and hostland. Her journey demonstrates how she is gradually annoyed and culminated to her deprivation of individuality, false impressions and hopelessness, and ultimately reaches to her dialectical self. Thus, her predicaments become the matters of preferences and principles in life.
Keywords: Home, exile, diaspora, homliness, unhomliness, identity, hybrid, ambivalence, nostalgia.
Journal Name :
EPRA International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (IJMR)

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Published on : 2025-01-26

Vol : 11
Issue : 1
Month : January
Year : 2025
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