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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.
Diaspora, Dislocation, Transformation, Identity Crisis, Alienation, Patriarchy, Subjugation
Diaspora, Dislocation, Transformation, Identity Crisis, Alienation, Patriarchy, Subjugation
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