Abstract:A b s t r a c t. The goal of this article is to discuss the use of history in Bharati Mukherjee's short story "Orbiting" from the collection The Middleman and Other Stories (1988). It is argued that Mukherjee refers back to the controversies that accompanied Italian immigration to the US at the turn of the 20 th century in order to provide the background for the present day immigrants (the post-1965 wave), and challenge the view that their assimilation is impossible. The historical context of American attitude… Show more
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