The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee by Ruth Maxey
The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee allows readers to discover the remarkable contributions Mukherjee made to American fiction over more than five decades.
Pioneering Indian American writer Bharati Mukherjee (1940-2017) is best known for her novel, Jasmine (1989), and her collection, The Middleman and Other Stories, which won the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award.
The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee is the first volume to feature her complete short fiction – all 35 stories, produced over more than 50 years – including unpublished and late tales. Ruth Maxey edits and introduces the collection, contextualising Mukherjee’s short fiction and the provocative, often prescient political questions it raises. This is an essential volume for readers both familiar with and new to her groundbreaking fiction.
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7 July 2023
Temple University Press
Cover illustration: Manhattan Mall by The Singh Twins, 1997 Copyright: The Singh Twins: www.singhtwins.co.uk
Publishing this book was part of a project of literary retrieval so that future readers and critics could have access to Mukherjee’s short fiction.
The “Collected Stories” genre is dominated by white men so it became especially important to me to celebrate the short fiction of a woman writer of colour.
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