Has Anyone Read The Holder of The World book or Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World."

FINAL ESSAY: CRITICAL ANAYSIS PAPER 2000 words due Monday, May 14 for 30% of Final Grade

Final Essay – Critical Reflection and Analysis Paper:  You must write and submit one 2000 wordcritical research paper. Please print your essay double-spaced, without gaps between paragraphs, in 12 point font size in a common font style such as Times New Roman. This paper must argue a thesis, must incorporate secondary research and must be documented in the MLA Style (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. with a complete and correctly formatted Works Cited page.

Final Essay Prompt:

In "Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World," literary scholar Pallavi Rastogi claims that Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World "searches for a dialectic of intercultural negotiation through which mainstream American society is dramatically altered as much as it alters its own immigrant population" (269). This thesis sentence shows that Rastogi believes in the equivalence of the "dialectic of intercultural negotiation" in the novel: American society is as dramatically altered by immigrants as immigrants are altered by American society. 

Take ONE thesis sentence from a different paragraph after the above quotation in Rastogi's article and explore its full meaning using the following sources:

The rest of the paragraph in Pallavi Rastogi's article "Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again" where your selected thesis sentence comes from.

The rest of Pallavi Rastogi's article "Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World."

Bharati Mukherjee's novel The Holder of the World (1993).

Works Cited

Rastogi, Pallavi. "Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World." Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature, edited by Zhou Xiaojing and Samina Najmi,  U of Washington P, 2005, pp. 268-284.