SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literature: Bharati Mukherjee

»Bharati Mukherjee (July 27, 1940 - January 28, 2017) was an Indian American-Canadian writer and professor emerita in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She was the author of a number of novels and short story collections, as well as works of nonfiction.« -- More information: Wikipedia

Jasmine (Novel, 1989)

I n f o r m a t i o n

»Jasmine is a novel by Bharati Mukherjee set in the 1980s about a young Indian woman in the United States who, trying to adapt to the American way of life in order to be able to survive, changes identities several times. Mukherjee's own experiences of dislocation and displacement in her life helps her in recording the immigrant experience of the protagonist in this novel.« -- More information: Wikipedia

G e n e r a l K e y w o r d s

Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century | Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Field, Robin E. Writing the Victim: Rescripting Rape in Contemporary American Fiction since 1970. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Virginia, 2006.

[Info] Noon, Mary J. Beyond Breaking the Silence: Race, Gender, and Survivor Subjectivities in Feminist Rape Narratives by Contemporary American Women of Color. M.A. Thesis, Texas Christian University, 2009.

II. Speaker Index