But, Christ, there's a difference between exotic and foreign, isn't there? Exotic means you know how to use your foreignness, or you make yourself a little foreign in order to appear exotic. Real foreign is a little scary, believe me.
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other. - Bharati Mukherjee
Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.
- Bharati Mukherjee
The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere. - Bharati Mukherjee
The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.
You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new pe… - Bharati Mukherjee
You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new pe…
There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer,… - Bharati Mukherjee
There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer,…
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children? - Bharati Mukherjee
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?
I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contempor… - Bharati Mukherjee
I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contempor…
I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver t… - Bharati Mukherjee
I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver t…
I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social… - Bharati Mukherjee
I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social…
What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire? - Bharati Mukherjee
What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?
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