Existential Dilemma in the novels of Bharati Mukherjee

Abstract

Many Indian women writers have settled abroad unfolding their experience in the course of their writing. Bharati Mukherjee is an Indian born American writer who has depicted the experience of the immigrants through varied female protagonists of her novels. Her works represent the exploration of feminine protagonists grappling for her survival. She believes that women are trapped within the instability of custom and creed. Bharati Mukherjee has painted a poignant image of the expatriates in her fiction and has beautifully portrayed her shattered dreams and loneliness.