Approaching 'Home' in Bharati Mukherjee’s Darkness

The object of this study is to explore the relationship between 'home' and decline ethnic identity in female characters Bharati Mukherjee's collection short stories Darkness (1985). This paper argues that while it generally accepted diaspora entails a questioning sense belonging (Kennedy, 2014: 12), for Mukherjee, "the price immigrant willingly pays, exile avoids, trauma self-transformation" ("Two ways belong America", 1996). article seeks contextualize Indian its roots routes, proving an inextricable link with gendering concept Bhattacharjee (1996). introduction underpinned by theoretical framework on namely South Asian migrants United States, analysis nation, from which literary assessment departs.