Cross Culturalism in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine

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Amanpreet Kaur

Abstract

Multiculturalism is a burning issue today and the critical analysis of Bharati Mukherjee's selected novel Jasmine brings into focus the immigrant experience of the female's self of being a woman and being an immigrant woman. It also covers cross-cultural experiences such as the rootlessness, the identity issues and the assimilation of the protagonists in her novels. The present research paper analyses Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine from a cross-cultural perspective. She is one of the renowned and established female writers of Indian diaspora in the United States. Her key objective is to explore and examine an impenetrable cross cultural awareness of those who connect with more than one culture. Her keen interest is to explore the plights and pains of South Asian immigrants in America and Canada and to bring about how immigrants face the problem of acculturation and cultural conflicts in adapted lands. Cultural alienation, displacement, survival and adjustment are the most frequent themes in her novels. Her own journey of life stretches across India, Canada and the United States. Almost her all novels reflect the themes of migration, exile, cultural alienation, assimilation and identity issues.

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Amanpreet Kaur. “Cross Culturalism in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine”. The Creative Launcher, vol. 3, no. 1, Apr. 2018, pp. 340-6, https://www.thecreativelauncher.com/index.php/tcl/article/view/902.
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Mukherjee, Bhart. Jasmine. New York: Grove Press. 1989. 29

Ibid.,170.

Ibid.,113.

Ibid., 145.

Ibid.,29.

Ibid., 213.

Ibid., 119.

Ibid., 120-121.

Ibid., 125.

Chin-Chuan Lee (1979) Media Imperialism Reconsidered: The Homogenizing of Television Culture. Baverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1980. p.57

Rajan, Balachandra. “Identity and Nationality”, Commonwealth Literature: Unity and Diversity in a Common Culture. Ed. John Press, London: Heinemann Educational Book, 1965. p.106.

Jasmine, 15.

Ibid., 59.

Ibid., 145.

Ibid., 163.

Ibid., 182-183.

Ibid., 200.

Ibid., 221.

Chin-Chuan Lee (1979). Media Imperialism Reconsidered: The Homogenizing of Television Culture. Baverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1980. p.57

Mukherjee, Bhart. Jasmine. New York: Grove Press. 1989. P.29-221

Rajan, Balachandra. “Identity and Nationality”, Commonwealth Literature: Unity and Diversity in a Common Culture. Ed. John Press, London: Heinemann Educational Book,1965. p.106.