Resumen de The subversion of Greek and Hindu myths in Barati Mukherjee's novels
- español
Bharati Mukherjee, autora de origen indio de doble nacionalidad canadiense y estadounidense, nos ofrece en sus novelas un universo femenino entre la India y América, los mitos griegos e hindúes. Identifica las trayectorias vengadoras de sus heroínas con la de Electra, matricida, y la de Kalî, la diosa hindú de la guerra de múltiples brazos. Así, trabajando sobre la noción griega de destino y la hindú del Dhanna, Mukherjee entreteje hilos griegos e hindúes que pertenecieron sin duda en otro tiempo a tramas mitológicas comunes. Además, inserta en su obra enlaces bíblicos y shakespearianos, provocando en el lector un vértigo intercultural.
- English
Bharati Mukherjee is an American and Canadian writer of lndian descent. Some of her stories are set both in India and in America, thus allowing her female characters to be identified with Western and Eastern mythological heroines, or more precisely with Greek and Hindu mythological heroines such as Electra and Kalî. Thus, the author manages to weave together Greek and Hindu mythological threads that certainly used to belong to a common mythological fabric thousands of centuries ago. As a result, she works both on the motif of Greek Fate, as well as on the Hindu notion of Dhanna, allowing the reader to ponder over the similarities between Greek and Hindu myths. Resides, she also weaves Biblical and Shakespearian threads into her narrative, causing a feeling of vertigo in the reader.
