Angela (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Bharati Mukherjee
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Short story
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Religion, Guilt, Adoption or adopted children, Refugees, Survival, Iowa
- Locales: Iowa
This story is included in Mukherjee's collection Darkness and in The Best American Short Stories, 1985, edited by Gail Godwin and Shannon Ravennel.
“Angela” is not a happily ending story of a refugee successfully finding life and liberty, and pursuing happiness, in the United States. Rather, it is a subtle psychological analysis of a survivor, of how survival can entail feelings of guilt and obligation, and of how survivors can be exploited by their rescuers.
The story begins with Angela, a teenage refugee from Bangladesh, at the bedside of her adoptive...
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