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Bharati Mukherjee
Indian-American writer
Bharati Mukherjee | |
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Speaking at the US Ambassador's residence in Israel, June 11, | |
| Born | Bharati Mukherjee ()July 27, Calcutta, Bengal Province, British India (present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India) |
| Died | January 28, () (aged&#;76) New York City, U.S. |
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| Nationality | Indian American Canadian |
| Genre | Novels, short stories, essays, travel literature, journalism. |
| Subjects | Post-colonial Anglophone fiction, Asian American fiction, autobiographical narratives, memoirs, American culture, immigration history, reformation and nationhood in the '90s, multiculturalism vs.
mongrelization, fiction writing, autobiography writing, and the form and theory of fiction. |
| Notable works | Jasmine |
| Spouse | Clark Blaise |
Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, – January 28, ) was an Indian American-Canadian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
She was the author of a number of novels and short story collections, as well as works of nonfiction.[1]
Early life and education
Of IndianHinduBengali Brahmin origin, Mukherjee was born in present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India during British rule. She later travelled with her parents to Europe after Independence, only returning to Calcutta in the early s.
Her Story There she met and fell in love with fellow student and Canadian-American author Clark Blaise. And so I sent a cable to my father saying 'by the time you get this daddy I'll already be Mrs Blaise! In an interview with Drexel University, Mukherjee recalled the reason she was allowed to leave India and study creative writing was because an arts degree was considered an "unthreatening" degree for her to earn while her father sought her a suitable groom. Article Talk.There she attended the Loreto School. She received her B.A. from the University of Calcutta in as a student of Loreto College, and subsequently earned her M.A. from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in [2] She next travelled to the United States to study at the University of Iowa. She received her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in and her PhD in from the department of Comparative Literature.[3]
Career
After more than a decade living in Montreal and Toronto in Canada, Mukherjee and her husband, Clark Blaise, returned to the United States.
She wrote of the decision in "An Invisible Woman," published in a issue of Saturday Night. Mukherjee and Blaise co-authored Days and Nights in Calcutta (). They also wrote the book, The Sorrow and the Terror regarding the Air India Flight tragedy.[4]
In addition to writing many works of fiction and non-fiction, Mukherjee taught at McGill University, Skidmore College, Queens College, and City University of New York before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley.
In Mukherjee won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her collection The Middleman and Other Stories.[5] In a interview with Ameena Meer, Mukherjee stated that she considered herself an American writer, and not an Indian expatriate writer.[6]
Mukherjee died due to complications of rheumatoid arthritis and takotsubo cardiomyopathy on January 28, , in Manhattan at the age of [7] She was survived by her husband and son.
Bharati mukherjee biography of rorys baby daddy In Calcutta, Mukherjee attended an English-style school and lived on her father's compound with over fifty members of their extended family. Her father then agreed that she could attend a two year creative writing course in the States while he looked for a good Bengali Brahmin bridegroom for her. Her death was confirmed in a Facebook post on February 1 by the Taraknath Das Foundation of which Mukherjee was a trustee. And so I sent a cable to my father saying 'by the time you get this daddy I'll already be Mrs Blaise!Her other son, Bart, predeceased her in [8]
Works
Novels
Short story collections
Memoir
Non-fiction
Awards and honors
Related novels
References
- ^"Holders of the Word: An Interview with Bharati Mukherjee".
Tina Chen and S.X. Goudie, University of California, Berkeley]
- ^"Arts and Culture: Bharati Mukherjee: Her Life and Works". PBS, Interview with Bill Moyers, February 5,
- ^"Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee". Toronto Star, June 10,
- ^Gangdev, Srushti (June 22, ).Bharati mukherjee biography of rorys baby Home Cricket. Indian American author and poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni says Mukherjee was an important influence on her when she started writing about the Indian immigrant experience in story collections such as Arranged Marriage. She felt that the truly creative, maybe even courageous, immigrant was the one who had assimilated and not the one who still clung to bits of her past. We have to take the author at face value on that, says Nabar.
"Most Canadians don't know about the bombing of Air India, the worst terrorist attack in Canada's history". Canadian Broadcasting.
- ^"Bharati Mukherjee Runs the West Coast Offense". Dave Weich, Powells Interview (April )
- ^Meer, Amanda May 14, , at the Wayback Machine Fall Retrieved May 20,
- ^"Novelist Bharati Mukherjee passes away".
India Live Today. February 1, Archived from the original on February 4, Retrieved February 1,
- ^Grimes, William (February 1, ). "Bharati Mukherjee, Writer of Immigrant Life, Dies at 76". The New York Times. Retrieved February 4,
- ^"Honorary Degrees | Whittier College".
BBC World Service: Download as PDF Printable version. Published in September of , Bharati Mukherjee's third novel, Jasmine, tells the story of its eponymous protagonist's journey from the small village of Hasnapur, India to Jalandhar, to Florida, to New York, and eventually to Iowa, inhabiting a Wikimedia Commons Wikiquote Wikidata item. She attended undergraduate school at the University of Calcutta, earned a master's degree from the University of Baroda, and in , after submitting a packet of handwritten stories to University of Iowa, was admitted to their MFA program for creative writing where she studied with other towering writers like Philip Roth and Vance Bourjaily.
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Further reading
- Abcarian, Richard and Marvin Klotz. "Bharati Mukherjee." In Literature: The Human Experience, 9th edition. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, –
- Alter, Stephen and Wimal Dissanayake (ed.). "Nostalgia by Bharati Mukherjee." The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories. New Delhi, Middlesex, New York: Penguin Books, 28–
- Kerns-Rustomji, Roshni.
- BBC World Service
- The Life and Legacy of Bharati Mukherjee ‹ Literary Hub
- Majithia, Sheetal. "Of Foreigners and Fetishes: A Reading of Recent South Asian American Fiction", Samar The South Asian American Generation (Fall/Winter ): 52–
- Maxey, Ruth ().
Understanding Bharati Mukherjee. University of South Carolina Press.
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- New, W. H., ed. "Bharati Mukerjee." In Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, –
- Selvadurai, Shyam (ed.). "Bharati Mukherjee: The Management of Grief." Story-Wallah: A Celebration of South Asian Fiction. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 91–
"Bharati Mukherjee." In The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 5th edition, Vol. E. Paul Lauter and Richard Yarborough (eds.). New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., –