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Panelist, Bharati Mukherjee
"I maintain that I am an American writer of Indian origin, not because I'm ashamed of my past, not because I'm betraying or distorting my past, but because my whole adult life has been lived here, and I write about the people who are immigrants going through the process of making a home here... I write in the tradition of immigrant experience rather than nostalgia and expatriation. That is very important. I am saying that the luxury of being a U.S. citizen for me is that can define myself in terms of things like my politics, my sexual orientation or my education. My affiliation with readers should be on the basis of what they want to read, not in terms of my ethnicity or my race...."
Bibliography: The Tiger's Daughter, Houghton, 1972. Wife, Houghton, 1975. Kautilya's Concept of Diplomacy: A New Interpretation, Minerva, 1976. (With Blaise) Days and Nights in Calcutta (nonfiction), Doubleday: Garden City, New York, 1977. An Invisible Woman, McClelland & Stewart, 1981. Darkness, Penguin, 1985. (With Blaise) The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy, Viking, 1987. The Middleman and Other Stories, Grove, 1988. Jasmine, Grove, 1989. Political Culture and Leadership in India (nonfiction), South Asia, 1991. Regionalism in Indian Perspective (nonfiction), South Asia, 1992. The Holder of the World, Knopf: New York City, 1993. Leave It to Me, A.A. Knopf: New York City, 1997. |
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