In other words, my literary agenda begins by acknowledging that America has transformed me. It does not end until I show how I (and the hundreds of thousands like me) have transformed America.
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.
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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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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