VOICES OF DISSONANCE AND RESILIENCE: FEMINIST RESISTANCE AND THE PURSUIT OF PEACE IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE'S NOVELS

Bharti Mukherjee, as a prolific writer adopts the theme of refugee, conflicts and ethnicity, cultural intolerance, transformation of women from conventional to Modern women, Women transverse from old thoughts to new principles. She experiences memories and apathy with her indigenous land, people, and culture. The author presented the reformation of her female characters in most of her novels. Mukherjee prevents feminist characteristics and establishes anti-retaliation and evolutionary ideas in her female characters. Mukherjee's novels, mainly "Jasmine", the transformative power of migration, and the agency of migrant women are depicted as showing the agency of migrant women in shaping their identities. The protagonists of Mukherjee have been portrayed as being strong, vocal, and capable of establishing themselves in a new environment strongly built characters with exceptional characters.

                Critics accepted Mukherjee's nuances of cross-cultural tension and the ability to catch the challenges of navigating between two or more cultures. Their characters often struggle with a conflict between their original cultures and the primary culture of their new home, which highlights the complications of the formation of identity in the migrants. Bharti Mukherjee has also expressed a sense of loss of identity in all her novels. Her heroes are placed in multi-cultural environments with migrant psyche and their issues of struggling for survival. In such a multicultural and multi-caste social setup, his heroes try to find out their identity. She attracts her characters as international individuals who are connected to their homeland and host the land equally. Although his characters in The Holder of the World, Leave Me, Desirable Daughters, and Tree Brides migrated into other countries, their roots are always in their homes. As a result, they are neither migrant nor immigrants in their values and attitudes, but transnational, whose network crosses the boundaries of the nation. In such a multicultural background, they find their missions that are central to their discovery of their identity.