Mujeres emigrantesLa construcción de la identidad en Bharati Mukherjee y Sunetra Gupta
ISSN: 0211-5913
Any de publicació: 2001
Títol de l'exemplar: Challenges and developments in functional grammar
Número: 42
Pàgines: 267-278
Tipus: Article
Altres publicacions en: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
Resum
The search for an identity in migrant writers stands as one of the main motifs in the field of postcolonial studies. In this case it intersects with class, gender and racial construction, because the subject matter of this essay deals with exploring the divergences that two IndoEnglish women find in their need for self-questioning their pasts and demonizing their presents as exiled, third-world women living in Canada, USA, and Britain. Both, Bharati Mukherjee and Sunetra Gupta —specially in Jasmine (1989), and Memories of Rain (1992), respectively— try to decipher in their own fictional realms the meaning of alterity and difference through the alter-egoes of their female protagonists, facing therefore the historical contexts and personal solitudes of their diachronic introspective gaze.