Transfiguration Of Hannah’s Voyage Into History;A Remoulding Of Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder Of The World

Abstract

Women writers of Post Colonial span deliberately pointed out the embarrassment of female protagonist. The wide range of literary outcast reflects the shadows of colonial impact in the present era. Post Colonial literature addresses those questions that emerge in relation to the aftermath of imperialism. Theorist like Franz Fanon investigated the consequence of colonial imperialism through his work The Wretched of the Earth. The literary canon expanded over up to the domain of Diaspora, Multiculturalism, Hybridity etc. The diasporic writings figure out the enigma of immigrants and expatriates within the homeland as well as from their host land. The writers such as V.S Naipaul, Anitha Desai, Arundathi Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee gave a new reflection for their stories. Mukherjee’s characterisation of her female immigrants came across all the barriers of transformation. Her novel picturises the powerful women characters as an embodiment of true self. The present paper aims to study Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World, in order to find out the ways in which the character Hannah redefines herself within her constraint surroundings to make a path for her own self.