T 1290.pdf - Pondicherry University DSpace Portal

Thanks to the United States, with her powerful writing inAmerica, Mukherjee has transcended lnto the world of.power and passion".Had she stayed back in India, her darknative land, one doubts whether she would have been a writer atall, in the first place. Even if she would have been one, shewould have been rather tame, demure like Jane Austen. Somepeople are meant to be American even if they never leave theirnatlve land. At heart they are American. It's a desire formore,more,more. ....The United States is the embodiment of openness,llberation and freedom, where an lndivldual can reverse omens-aland of transformation, a culture of dreamers (the AmericanDream)-by transcending myths. For Mukherjee as much as forMalamud lt 1s simply a matter of grasping "mainstream America"by the lapels and telling lt that we belong. Though thematerial Malamud and Mukherjee use is new-they are in thevanguard of a whole generation of first and second generationlmmlgrant wrlters who are discovering that to write aboutpeople like themselves makes sense.Notwithstanding the American foreiqn policy,multlnationalism and American imperialism, America has helpedboth the writers to purge themselves (and through them theircharacters) of thelr native, cultural, social and religiouslnhlbitions, ventilate and give full and free flow to their