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nukherjee's commitment for the liberation of the colouredimmigrants exposes her coloured Third World radicalism. Being awriter in the accomodationist tradition of the 1960's inAmerica, Malamud relegates elements a:: protest to a postion ofsecondary impartar.ce, concentrating on the individual problemof Jewish striving to enter the mainstream of American life.His protagonists do not directly challenge the authority of thewhite gentiles but merely try to adjust themselves to thespecial problems created by a hostile world. On the othorhand,the angry Third World writer Bharatl Mukherjee expresses amilitant assertion by giving expression to racial or ethnicprotest. Mukherjee rejects completely the accomodative andpassive resistance programme as it appeals to the whiteAmerican conscience in mild and supplicated tones expecting afavourable response from them. She advocates violence andmilitancy as a means of achieving immigrant Asian-Indianidentity leading t.o s coloured immigrant awareness in herwritings.Malamud's views on racial confllct are particularlystriking and they form the theme of his novels. His novelslaunch a double attack against both the outrage over specificinjustices handed out to Jews and his outrage over humanity'sgeneral capacity for viciousness. Malamud remains a uniquenovelist in that his vision encompasses a commitment to black