Feministic Perspective in Bharati Mukherjee’s – ‘WIFE’

Pages:95-97
Uma (Dayal Singh College, New Delhi)

Bharati Mukherjee, caught between two different worlds, seeks synthesis, conciliation, compromise and sense of living together, absorbing different influences. Mindsets and traditions in a human reality. Being herself a sensitive, articulate woman, Bharati Mukherjee reasonably invites the label a ‘feminist’ in her portrayal man-woman relationship and it would in the fitness of things to appraise her novels and short-stories from this point of view in particular. Bharati Mukherjee is regarded as a feminist novelist. Feminism may be defined: