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- Title: South Asian American Literature
- Author : Sonja Blum
- Release Date : January 16, 2008
- Genre: Earth Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 122 KB
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Bharati Mukherjee was born on July 27th 1940 in Calcutta, India. In 1947 she moved with her family to England through which she was able to refine her English language skills at a very young age. After having moved back to India three years later, Bharati received her Bachelorâs Degree at the University of Calcutta in 1959 and a MA in English and Ancient Indian Culture at the University of Baroda in 1961. She immigrated to the United States of America directly after she finished college in India and obtained her MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa in 1963. This is also the year in which she married the Canadian student Clark Blaise with whom she will later move to his home country. Not being very happy in Canada, Mukherjee and her family settle in America in 1980. Here, she says, she feels âfar more comfortable with her âbetween worldsâ statusâ.5 In an interview with Erin Soderberg from the University of Minnesota, Mukherjee states that her â14 years in Canada were some of the hardest of her life, as she found herself discriminated against and treated [âŠ] as a member of the âvisible minorityââ.6 I personally think that this experience influenced Bharati Mukherjeeâs depiction of Canada in âThe Management of Griefâ. As she writes about the main characterâs time in Ireland and the peopleâs friendly reactions towards her (âThe Irish are not shy; they rush to me and give me hugs and some are cryingâ, p. 3367), Shaila states that she âcannot imagine reactions like that on the street of Torontoâ (p. 336). This sentence reflects Mukherjeeâs personal disappointment with the Canadian society and her bad experience in the country. A few pages later, Shailaâs mother tries to persuade her daughter to stay in India by saying that âCanada is a cold placeâ (p. 338). Quite an ambiguous remark by the author since it could relate to the cold temperature as well as to her perceived cold atmosphere in Canada. In summary, every reference to Canada is connected with adjectives of coldness (cf. âWe are deep in the Toronto winter, gray skies, icy pavementsâ, p. 344) and sadness which probably reveals the authorâs feelings towards the country.
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