2021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleBharati Mukherjee was the
first major South Asian American writer and the first naturalized
American citizen to win the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Born in Kolkata, India, she immigrated to the United States in 1961
and went on to publish eight novels, two short story collections,
two long works of nonfiction, and numerous essays, book reviews,
and newspaper articles. She was professor emerita in the Department
of English at the University of California, Berkeley, until her
death in 2017. In Understanding Bharati Mukherjee, Ruth Maxey
discusses Mukherjee's influence on younger South Asian American
women writers, such as Jhumpa Lahiri and Chitra Divakaruni.
Mukherjee's powerful writing also enjoyed popular appeal, with some
novels achieving best-seller status and international acclaim; her
1989 novel Jasmine was translated into multiple languages. One of
the earliest writers to feature South Asian Americans in literary
form, Mukherjee reflected upon the influence of non-European
immigrants to the United States, following passage of the
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which abolished the quota
system. Her vision of a globalized, interconnected world has been
regarded as prophetic, and when Mukherjee died, diverse North
American writers-Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks,
Michael Ondaatje, Ann Beattie, Amy Tan, and Richard Ford-came
forward to praise her work and its importance. Understanding
Bharati Mukherjee is the first book to examine this pioneering
author's complete oeuvre and to identify its legacy. Maxey offers
new insights into widely discussed texts and recuperates overlooked
works, such as Mukherjee's first and last published short stories,
her neglected nonfiction, and her many essays. Critically situating
both well-known and under-discussed texts, this study analyzes the
aesthetic and ideological complexity of Mukherjee's writing,
considering her sophisticated, erudite, multilayered use of
intertextuality, especially her debt to cinema. Maxey argues that
understanding the range of formal and stylistic strategies in play
is crucial to grasping Mukherjee's work.
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