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Hyphenated Identity: Immigrant Mindscape in Bharati Muhherjee’s Tiger’s Daughter

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  • Asha Susan Jacob

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Keywords:

home, host, alienation, nowhereness, assimilation

Abstract

Separation from home and nation, culture-shock, problems of alienation and assimilation form the matrix of

immigrant writing. The degree of estrangement, essentially individualistic, depends on various factors like

education , background, nation and culture of the immigrant as well as the receptive capacity of the host

country. Failure to forge new ties instead of the severed ones leads cultural transplants to remain as eternal

aliens. In The Tiger’s Daughter Bharati Mukherjee recreates the complexities confronting an immigrant who

is suspended between two worlds, two homes and two cultures.

Author Biography

  • Asha Susan Jacob

     

    Dept. of English, St. Thomas College,

    Kozhencherry, Kerala, India 689641.

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Published

2025-03-12

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2013)

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