Volume III Special Issue II February 2023

Name of Author : Dr. S Revathi

Title of the paper : Expatriation and Isolation in Bharathi Mukherjees Novel Wife: A Thematic Study

Abstract: Mukherjee has become a star for her distinctive approach to expatriate hood as a metaphysical expertise of exile. She has depicted girls as humans and people. She presents the image of expatriate women and trauma of being an immigrant. Bharathi Mukherjee, an Indo-American author of the recent times, has bestowed her themes by depiction in her fiction the issues two- faced by Indian and alternative Third- world immigrants, who arrange to assimilate into North-American life vogue. This paper talks about Bharathi Mukherjees novel named Wife in which how Mukherjee describes the dilemma of an Indian wife who migrate to America and her inability to perform and transformation into an American life lead Dimples life into isolation and at the end it leads her into murder.

Keywords : Assimilation, Expatriation, Identity, Immigrant, Indianness, Isolation

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Page Number : 18-21