<span>"My literary agenda begins by acknowledging that America has transformed me. It does not end until I show how I (and the hundreds of thousands like me) have transformed America."
This is showing that she is not going to fall into the request of literary critics and theorists to only write about India and the persecution of Indian women. She does not want to fall into their stereotypes.</span>
"My literary agenda begins by acknowledging that America has transformed me. It does not end until I show how I (and the hundreds of thousands like me) have transformed America."