Bharati Mukherjee’s Struggle Against Cultural Balkanizationthe Forging of a New American Immigrant Writing

  1. Mª Luz González 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Laguna
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    Universidad de La Laguna

    San Cristobal de La Laguna, España

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Revista:
Indialogs: Spanish journal of India studies

ISSN: 2339-8523

Año de publicación: 2015

Volumen: 2

Páginas: 72-92

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.5565/REV/INDIALOGS.25 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Indialogs: Spanish journal of India studies

Resumen

Este artículo tiene por objeto el estudio de la posición individual de Bharati Mukherjee como escritora, a través de los personajes femeninos que aparecen en sus obras, a caballo entre dos mundos, casas y culturas variopintos. Tras pasar por fases vitales diferenciadas: como exiliada de la India, expatriada en Canadá, emigrante común y lograr, finalmente, la nacionalidad estadounidense, todas estas identidades se trasladan a su carrera literaria. Así, la autora se concibe a sí misma como una pionera en tierras y literaturas nuevas, iniciando un proceso de reformulación y deconstrucción de la cultura americana, y redefiniendo la diáspora como un proceso de rehabitación sin líneas divisorias en el cual el paisaje cultural vivido no presenta centro ni periferias. Mukherjee festeja una “bastardización racial y cultural” y rechaza la balcanización cultural en su defensa de lo local sobre lo nacional. No es, por otra parte, ajena ni insensible al racismo y la opresión de los Estados Unidos, pero sus personajes se muestran pertinaces en luchar por su sentido de “pertenencia.” Mukherjee pone el énfasis en su cualidad de batalladores, empeñados en mejorar sus vidas. En su construcción de América como tierra de oportunidades y logros, Mukherjee evita la morriña y, al hacerlo, se aparta con claridad de la diáspora india, aunque tendemos a pensar que al defender tal postura llega al extremo e idealiza lo “real” para así crear un cosmos migratorio literario y distintivo.

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