Portrayal of south asian women as immigrants in the select novels of bharati mukherjee Saranya P1, Lakshmi R.2 1Research Scholar, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India 2Research Supervisor, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India Online published on 1 November, 2018. Abstract This paper is an in-depth analysis of portrayal of South Asian Women in the select novels of Bharati Mukherjee. As a result of globalisation, the world has become a global village due to which, migration has become very common and people's movement has increased considerably in recent days. The process of migration, settling down in new land and adapting to the new culture involve several issues and affect both men and women irrespective of the gender. Bharati Mukherjee is an Indian-born diasporic writer who achieved a special place in Indian diaspora as well in the American Literary World. Being an immigrant, Mukherjee exhibits the lives of the migrant women lively and artistically. She expresses the social reality of the Asian Immigrants’ lives in the contemporary America. She perfectly merges fact and fiction in her writings. She focusses on the sufferings and pains of the immigrants through her protagonists. The voyage of migration includes expatriation, racial discrimination, alienation, displacement and cultural shock. The women characters face many problems, endures all odds and emerge as survivors. The characters Tara in the Tiger's Daughter and Dimple in Wife denies to forget the past and accept the new. But, Jasmine undergoes many transformations at different locations and changes her identity along with the change of her names, where she emerges as a rebel and survivor, giving confidence and creates an optimistic view among the readers. She serves as an example for all the South Asian women immigrants to accept, adapt, adopt the new culture. Top Keywords South Asian Women, Indian Diaspora, Transformations, Immigration. Top |