Dr. P. Sudhalakshmi
Since the past few decades, writings of immigrants gain attention in the global literary field. Many diasporic writes like V.S.Naipaul, Salman Rusdie, Amitav Ghosh, Gita Mehta, Arundathi Roy, BharatiMukerjee express their longing for their ideality through their works. As United States becomes the dominating force in all fields, people of other countries migrate to US to lead a better economical and social life. Beyond their desired upliftment, these immigrants have lost their identity of their nation and so they are forced to assimilate themselves as Americans. Especially Indians who have come from a rich cultural tradition, feeling isolated due to their migration, strive to retain their Indiannessand also their American identity. One of the renowned Indian diasporic writers, BharatiMukerjee brings the double consciousness of Asian Americans, specially Indian Americans to the global arena through her protagonists in her novels Wife and Jasmine. This paper tends to highlight the struggle of survival of these characters in between “home of origin” and “world of adoption”.
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