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Cultural Perplexity of Immigrants in Mukherjees Jasmine

. Bimal Kishore Shrivastwa Department of English, P. G. Campus Tribhuvan University, Biratnagar, Nepal


Abstract

This research paper analyzes the cultural perplexity of the immigrants in Bharati Mukherjees novel, Jasmine from the postcolonial and feminist perspectives. It records the traumatic experiences of the immigrants, the womens consciousness, and self discovery in the new society in Bharati Mukherjees Jasmine by using the postcolonial ideology of Homi K. Bhabha, and other postcolonial theorists, and Beauvoir’s attitude to the second sex as theoretical tools. The protagonist, who is a young Indian woman, Jasmine living in the United States, is trying to adapt to the American ways of life in order to be able to survive, and changes identities several times. Moreover, this research is to survey how Jasmine is trying to assimilate two world’s experiences as the attempts to find her place, her role, in the new society she encounters. The disorientation, state of exile and alienation, and feeling of loss transform Jasmine into a troubled immigrant person who is madly in search of her identity in a strange land. The chief finding of the paper is that Jasmine experiences cultural perplexity during her journey. It is expected that researchers intending to explore Mukherjee from the postcolonial dimension can take the paper as a reference.

Keywords: Diaspora; dislocation; disorientation; homelessness; hybridity.

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