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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)In "From the Poets in the Kitchen," her contribution to "The Making of a Writer" series in the New York Times Book Review (9 January 1983), Paule Marshall declares the sources of her art to be the expressive talk she...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)There are no easy ways to categorize Bharati Mukherjee. Her writing and her life span East and West, past and present, tradition and change, hope and despair. Her remarkable skill in exploring through fiction her own...
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From:Feminist WritersBharati Mukherjee is perhaps one of the most well-known writers from the Indian diaspora in the United States. Her writing, both fictional and non-fictional, belongs to the growing category of immigrant literature that...
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From:Contemporary Review (Vol. 294, Issue 1706)INDIANS and Pakistanis were all Indian until 1947 when Pakistan was formed out of British India. Indian Americans are not to be confused with American Indians. The former are Americans who have a background in the...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 75, Issue 3)Europe discovers. India beckons. Isn't that so? India sits atop her lily pad through centuries, lost in contemplation of the horizon. And, from time to time, India is discovered. -- Richard Rodriguez. Days of...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBy definition a postcolonial writer, Bharati Mukherjee is no multiculturalist. She took explicit aim at the term in 1994: "Multiculturalism emphasizes the differences between racial heritages. This emphasis on the...
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From:The New Yorker (Vol. 89, Issue 35)BUTTER BY AKHIL SHARMA The most important thing was loyalty. My older brother had been brain-damaged in a swimming accident and was unable to move or talk. We took him home from the hospital and started caring for...
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From:African American Writers (Vol. 2. 2nd ed.)MARGARET HOMANS Introduction AS A CHILD learning to write, Audre Lorde tells us in her “biomythography,” Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, she chose to spell her name her own way: Audre instead of Audrey. This...