SOCIAL IDENTITY IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE’S JASMINE
SOCIAL IDENTITY IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE’S JASMINE

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.

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