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Abstract
Mukherjee’s women are constantly combating the unresolved contradiction between culture and location in order to exist in a world of ‘othernesses.’ This othernesses could not be limited to new culture, but in the process of the assimilation of the contraries, they negotiate disjunctions and ruptures. A silent rupture exists within their identity mechanics. It is persistently the negotiation of self and other or the mutation outside that unleashes a split space which consists in the free play of dislocations and politics of polarity. The women characters of Bharati Mukherjee belong to different cultural perspectives and feel marginalized in new culture in their new interstitial role. Their aesthetic image discloses varied gender and ethnic presence in the transitional world.