Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife: Transmuted Through Violence and Splittingwithoutcultural Grit of Resistance

Abstract

Abstract

Violence is the key word in Mukherjee’s fiction, and the psychic violence that she thinks necessary for the transformation of character, is often emphasized by an accompanying physical conflict of some sort. For her ?murder evolves into an acceptable signifier for discarding nostalgia and starting over: It is neither the end nor even merely the means to an end it is a beginning