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perennial realities Of psychological and philosophical truth.since Malamud is committed to the defence of life, he likes tobring out the possibility of understanding between man and man,especially under pressure of pain and suffering. Thosesituations in which pain and suffering are focussed areInformed by the employment of myths. The amount of love a man1s able to give life is the measure of his grace in Malamud'suniverse.Mukherjee's wlll to slnk into an allen culture, asdlstinct from remaining a member of a self-conscious minorityin a more pluralist society lrke Canada or the United States,has inspired many of her stories. Meltlng Into America, hercharacters are plagued with confusion and brutality. Indiannessbecomes a metaphor for a partlal, painful understanding. Thenewcomer's feelings about the West span a spectrum fromstranded expatriation to vibrant identification to momentarynostalgia for old homes. Mukherlee also uses the element ofmyth to create her stories that are complex and ironic.Protagonists actually try to come to terms with therr complexinheritance and to have roots. They try to belong bylntegratlon of the dlverse experiences, psychic needs andmyths.Tara In Bharati Mukherjee's The Tiser's Daushter finds itdifficult to relate herself to her famlly, city, culture in
since her marriage to an American, Her western.,iucatiun has nade her an 'alienated' westernized woman.is a dramatization of the resulting ambivalences.TheTaramakes a despurate attempt to reconcile the two worlds : thewestern one vith its secular orientations and the Brahmin onein ,,il..~.:h a3,r
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From Marginality to Mainstream :A S
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DR. P.BALASWAMY,M.A.,PhDREADERDEPAR
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Llbrary, Osmania University Llbrary
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A NOTE ON DOCUMENTATIONfor quotatio
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in United States byand Company, Inc
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INTRODUCTION: IMMIGRANT SENSIBILITY
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eceived in the broad lap of our gre
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states brinqlnq the immigrant popul
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much for his metaphor of the United
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society happens to be a two-way pro
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The picture of the immigrant caught
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minds of men/women acting under the
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historical canvas, the American is
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some extent, with the United States
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neighbourhoods have also changed. E
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einforced and enhanced this primord
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prominence in movies, in the theatr
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Amerlcans of Asian extraction has q
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Mukherlee have all lllumlnated the
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parents had passed through Ellis Is
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Rmerica presented. Adapting tonot w
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deslgned to keep out anyone with to
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aslc emotions-the moral obligations
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finest, most characteristic Innovat
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The PeoDle; and three collections o
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Both Malamud and Mukher~ee reach th
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apart from maklng authors mutually
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CHAPTER I iTransgressions : The Hau
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contemporary Everyman / Everywoman
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~~~~~~------------>Destru~ti~e
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'tfirst important American writer t
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from 1949. The change gives both hi
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thought based on Reason, Science, I
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counter to their zeal for reformati
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coffrn. Wllly's slnking heart becom
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controlling them. They experience a
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hls/her moral self-but the former o
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takes up employment ln a dlstrict f
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hls theme, Spearmint's powerful the
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ln~reases, he Usurps the role Of a
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~h~ Great GatsbY tries to Come out
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acquire a new identity as lmmlgrant
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of an expatrlate, Mukherjee emphati
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"Hindus" and "Courtly Vision", Mukh
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(~~rkness II).....demonstrative fam
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exposed to blackmail. "The Indian f
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succeed in the New World. Most of t
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equired lt. Unfavourable experience
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arranges a Thanks-giving dlnner at
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the past as she rldes In a cab in N
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The Liberatlon Tlgers were In full-
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She is in another sense following I
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CHAPTER I I ISuffering And Compassi
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mechanical purishment and have thei
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another for being alone. And we've
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::rlmir,dl ;riece-neal and t h i su
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jews to flee like nomads from their
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emphaoising the sense of community
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the relationship develops, the ques
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untrained natural baseball player,
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the action focuses.,3 N W LifP is a
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orn orphan he had to "dl9 with my f
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The gradual resumption of his Jewls
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ends here. The end also Promises a
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~oncern. G!2!XSG!XlGS becomes a str
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Page 201 and 202: CHAPTERVTradition : Roots - Within
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soth Mukherjee and Malamud have don
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aised to be passive and dependent a
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different personae, Mukherjee is In
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~harati Mukherjee emphatically plac
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CHAPTERVlConclusion : Moral Centre
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nukherjee's commitment for the libe
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completely unanchored, groping for
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"fixes" their Status and acceptabil
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"Jewishness", according to Alter, i
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attling against the flaws in their
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etterment that there is a Jew in hi
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eauty of the human spirit.This huma
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very often these Indians in America
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of their life.In ~merica, Indian wo
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without the chance of ever having a
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mobile for them to indulge in the l
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Certainly a writer who sees the dea
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and reflection, he arrives at a rea
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As faith in Judaism weakened and sc
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militancy. Malamud'sprotagonists ar
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placed. Dubin in Dubin's Lives by s
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transformation while trying to get
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into the longer, broader and more s
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challenges of time.Jasmine's declsi
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mlssion-the greatness and richness
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Holocaust and tho security of Israe
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wonder her stories and novels were
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Bharati Mukherjee may represent the
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A SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYI. PRIMARY SOU
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National University Publications;Ke
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U,. New York.Carb, Alison B. 1990.
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Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 1947.Trans.Cons
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Fitzqerald, Francis.1973. h UVietrl
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Handy W. J. 1977. "The Malamud Hero
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Introductien t~ the SasU Pf Enalish
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Series,Washington: PublishedUnited
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Nazareth. Patrr. 1986. "Total Vlsio
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Roth, Phllip. 1961. "Writlng Americ
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Snlth, K.Neh Delhi: Sterling Publis
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kasl, Mur lel. 15,9!1. '*?x Middlem
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