Multiple self-reinventions: Bharati Mukherjee's projection of the immigrant subjectivity

The phenomenon of exile has emerged in modern times due to uneven development within capitalism and due to the movement forced by colonial powers. The uneven development has led to unprecedented migration of the Asians and Africans to the West. The imposed and indirectly hegemonizing shift from territories has occurred within Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and also from these continents to the West. This territorial shift has produced a new (un)-homed person whose mind works in a fluid paradigm for definition of national and cultural identity. In her phenomenal fictions Mukherjee visualizes how the immigrant subjectivity has lost the culture that used to unify the unanticipated and startling events of history leaving a negotiated space for recasting the comforting and stable perspectives, generating a new hybrid (sub)-culture. The phenomenon of exile has emerged in modern times due to uneven development within capitalism and due to the movement forced by colonial powers. The uneven development has led to unprecedented migration of the Asians and Africans to the West. The imposed and indirectly hegemonizing shift from territories has occurred within Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and also from these continents to the West. This territorial shift has produced a new (un)-homed person whose mind works in a fluid paradigm for definition of national and cultural identity. In her phenomenal fictions Mukherjee visualizes how the immigrant subjectivity has lost the culture that used to unify the unanticipated and startling events of history leaving a negotiated space for recasting the comforting and stable perspectives, generating a new hybrid (sub)-culture.