Diasporic Palpitation In Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter

Abstract

Bharati Mukherjee successfully portrays the journey of a woman through her novels with extreme sensibility. Her protagonists pass through a phase of growth, self-discovery, alienation and a conflict of generations which leads her from innocence to knowledge. Women have often been victims of male coercion and treated like beasts of burden. The last few decades have witnessed a remarkable change in the outlook of women in Indian English fiction and it have been mainly because of numerous female writers in India who view this subject in their unique way. They have transformed the formulaic suffering woman to an aggressive or independent person trying to seek identity of her own through her various relationships within the family and in the society. It is an extremely contagious and fascinating study of a Brahmin girl named Tara Banerjee in the Tiger’s Daughter who moves to America for higher education. Tara’s heritage does not begin with her father. Tara who is portrayed as a daughter of Tiger, represents all these characteristics, under goes tremendous strain and stress and intellectual confusion, and creates her own cage because of her reasoning prowess.