Bharati Mukherjee’s Heroines Asserting Their Place as ‘Heroes’ with a Transformation in Personality to the Core: An Appraisal.

Abstract

Bharati Mukherjee is one of the renowned women writers of the Indian diaspora. She has won laurels for her works related to women’s identity in a foreign country. The present research paper is a humble attempt to make an emphatic statement about the gendered and ethically defined identities of women, especially Indian women who are picturized in the fictional world of Bharati Mukherjee as heroines strongly asserting their place as ‘heroes’, with an effective change in the transformation of their personalities through some substantial amount of hardship’s and struggles for shedding the tangles of the complex expectations and chains of conventions so as to lead, their lives the way they aspire to live and examine how Mukherjee’s characters make journey to become self-dependent and create identities of their own on their own terms with the spirit of manliness and heroism for which the protagonists Tara, Dimple and Jasmine are chosen for depiction of heroines turned heroes facing varied situations as women and immigrants to find a sense of self and individuality in the new world.