Mujeres emigrantesLa construcción de la identidad en Bharati Mukherjee y Sunetra Gupta
ISSN: 0211-5913
Year of publication: 2001
Issue Title: Challenges and developments in functional grammar
Issue: 42
Pages: 267-278
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
Abstract
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.