A MANIFESTATION OF DIASPORIC AND FEMINIST STRAINS IN JASMINE: A NOVEL BY BHARATI MUKHERJEE

Bharati Mukherjee was a versatile and well-grounded diasporic writer. Hailing from India, she managed to secure a
really promising and prominent position among the mainstream American writers. The primary concern of her literary
outputs is the delineation of the cultural clashes encountered by the Indian immigrants in foreign lands. She primarily
takes up the protagonists of her literary creations from Indian context who strive hard to settle in the alien lands and
meanwhile undergo unpleasant experiences of exile, alienation, a sense of loss, pangs of separation and dislocation,
identity crisis and many more. The chief aim of the present paper is to present a story of a Punjabi girl Jasmine who
had to undergo such nasty experiences in order to ensure her survival in America. It is also a story of a girl Jasmine,
who undergoes subjugation and submissiveness in phallocentric and patriarchal World both in India and in America.
Moreover, a primary concern of this paper is to bring forth the numerous transformations that she had during her stay
in America. It is all about her journey from Jyoti to Jasmine and then to Jazzy, Jane etc.