Cross-Cultural Conflict: A Study in the fiction of Bharati Mukherjee’s Novels

Abstract

Bharati Mukherjee is an India-born American Novelist who has highlighted the conflict between the cultures of ‘homeland†and ‘adopted land’.Bharati Mukherjee as a Novelist and a short story writer deals with the problems of transition which brings the state of displacement, separation, rootlessness, cultural conflict or biculturalism and it cultivates the ocean of diasporic ethos in her works. If we look at her characters in novels and short stories, we can find them as a harbinger of diasporic consciousness in shape of sufferings, pains, predicaments, loneliness, homelessness and rootlessness. The present paper will delve deep in highlighting such diasporic ethos of cultural conflict of Indian as well as American cultures.