bharati mukherjee
She was raised a Bengali Brahmin. Sent to the US to study writing, she impulsively married a Canadian. 14 years later, she chose to become an American because she was disgusted by the hypocrisy of the Canadian "mosaic" idea of multiculturalism.
She chooses not to hyphenate herself because, it seems, she feels anger towards Indo-Americans who do so and seem to care more about their previous homelands than about America. She despises those who live here yet denounce America's ideology. She believes forgetting the past is a natural growing process.
Yet, she still denounces "otherization" and violence towards the Other.
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