RESONANCE OF FEMININE SENSIBILITY AND CROSS-CULTURALISM

The literature by the Diasporic writers is a type of self-analysis, a sort of therapy for survival in this Darwinian global village, in which surrounding forces determine the creative output. The problems faced by women in cross- cultural context have remained an issue of discussion for the South Asian Diasporic women writers. The feminine sensibility portrayed by Diasporic writers may be studied from different points of view such as the cultural, feministic, political, psychological, biological, sociological, economical, geographical and so on. A comparative study of the feminine sensibility and cross-culturalism as resonated in the novels and short stories, may lead to the findings of the common and diverse problems faced by women in the alien countries. This may be concluded with a collective Diasporic consciousness. The present research entitled as "RESONANCE OF FEMININE SENSIBILITY AND CROSS-CULTURALISM: A STUDY OF THE SELECTED DIASPORIC FICTION OF BHARATI MUKHERJEE¿ undertakes a comparative analysis, from the cultural and feministic points of view, of the predicament of women protagonists in immigration presented in the novels and short stories written by Bharati Mukherjee.