DEVELOPING OF A NEW IDENTITY BY THE CHARACTERS IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE'S JASMINE

Bharati Mukherjee is a well- known Indian- American writer. She presents the theme of immigration but she asserts that her theme is central for the American readers. She personally likes the American culture and presents in her novels the various themes which are dominated with the American tendency of fluidity and multiculturalism. Mukherjee presents a new outlook of South Asian immigrants in her narrative; she becomes the first Indian-American writer to make a special niche in the American literary tradition with her central themes and subject matters which are quite appreciated by the American readers. In Jasmine, she depicts the young woman of a small village from Punjab who faces lots of problems in her adventurous journey to America. This paper is confined to her own reflection as an American writer.