Home as a mythic space of desire in the diasporic imagination: a study of Bharati Mukherjee's tiger's daughters and desirable daughters

Bharati Mukherjee writes on the Indian Diasporas. Like diasporic writers she is inclined to inhabit the same liminal or threshold region of intercutting subjectivities that define the experience of the migrant and the sense of dislocation. Globalisation has produced a new structure and outline of migration and provoked conflicting structures and responses worldwide. The seemingly homogenizing effect of globalization cannot hide the different responses it has prompted in the different regions within its reach. Tara in The Tiger's Daughter has a consciousness of her own identity in the process of the diasporic quest for self. She is wary of her feminine self and is unwavering to assert it in an ambience of disjunction and displacement. The novelist probes the multiple wounds of the feminine mind of Tara, ones that are characterized by lacerated feelings cutting deep into her psyche and making her moody and depressed. In Desirable Daughters Mukherjee considers different pattern of belonging in the Global perspectives from in-between temporality to assimilative permanence and further, hyphenated and unmixed nationness. Desirable Daughters is a tale of immigrants and the attitude of three sisters and their ways of negotiating the multiple dislocations in three different perspectives.