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03259aam a2200445 i 4500 001 7FF8C672FF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 003 SILO 005 20191105010136 008 190329s2019 scu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2019011940 020 $a 1643360000 020 $a 9781643360003 035 $a (OCoLC)1076500541 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ii--- $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a PR9499.3 M77 Z87 2019 100 1 $a Maxey, Ruth $e author. 245 10 $a Understanding Bharati Mukherjee / $c Ruth Maxey. 264 1 $a Columbia, South Carolina : $b University of South Carolina Press, $c [2019] 300 $a 148 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Understanding contemporary American literature 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Understanding Bharati Mukherjee -- India versus America: The tiger's daughter, Wife, and Days and nights in Calcutta -- Canada in Mukherjee's 1980s work: Darkness and The sorrow and the terror -- Immigration to the United States: The middleman and other stories and Jasmine -- Mukherjee's 1990s writing: The holder of the world and Leave it to me -- Novels for the twenty-first century: Desirable daughters, The tree bride, and Miss New India. 520 $a "Bharati Mukherjee was an important, bold, pioneering American writer. Born in Calcutta, India on July 27, 1940 to Sudhir Lal Mukherjee and Bina (neÌe Chatterjee), a Bengali Brahmin couple, the young Bharati--the middle of three daughters--enjoyed a privileged early life. Mukherjee's father was a biochemist who ran a successful pharmaceutical company and supported a wide network of some fifty relatives all based within the same house in Ballygunge, south Calcutta. A precociously intelligent child, Mukherjee was always highly literate, stimulated by her parents to read and study. Consuming books in a quiet corner was often a refuge from the claustrophobic demands of traditional Indian joint family living, and she began writing stories as a young child. Mukherjee was inspired by the storytelling of her paternal grandmother and her mother. Indeed, she consistently paid tribute to Bina, who proudly defended and encouraged Mukherjee and her two sisters, Mira and Ranu, against a patriarchal backdrop of ridicule from Bina's older, female in-laws for having borne Sudhir no sons." -- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Mukherjee, Bharati $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Mukherjee, Bharati. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00001133 650 0 $a East Indian Americans in literature. 650 0 $a East Indians $z Canada. 650 0 $a Emigration and immigration in literature. 650 0 $a Immigrants in literature. 651 0 $a Canada $x In literature. 651 0 $a India $x In literature. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Maxey, Ruth, author. $t Understanding Bharati Mukherjee $d Coumbia, SC : The University of South Carolina Press, 2019 $z 9781643360010 $w (DLC) 2019016516 830 0 $a Understanding contemporary American literature 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217025250.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20191204012003.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7FF8C672FF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search