SOCIAL IDENTITY IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE’S JASMINE
SOCIAL IDENTITY IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE’S JASMINE
Author(s): Smaranda ȘtefanoviciSubject(s): Cultural history, Gender history, American Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: social identity; fluid identity; postcolonial duality; enculturation; acculturation;
Summary/Abstract: Bharati Mukhejee’s postcolonial fiction reflects the Indian culture merged with the immigrant experience. She writes about the cultural clashes and interracial confrontations she experienced as an exile from India, an expatriate in Canada, and an immigrant in USA. For her, despite hardships, America treats immigrants as Americans more than as minorities. The article favors and proves the postcolonial idea of fluid identity. Despite the cultural constraints imposed on her by the rigid, patriarchal Indian society, she believes in Indian core values such as family, motherhood, gender, and sexuality as necessary ingredients towards her ‘passage’ to define her as an individual.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Petru Maior. Philologia
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 25
- Page Range: 87-93
- Page Count: 7
- Language: English