Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine : a narrative for redefining identity and subjectivity

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This paper argues that Mukherjee’s Jasmine develops a new framework for understanding the relationship between the immigrant and the host country.

Concerned w'ith the positive rather than the negative experience of immigration, the novelist, through her heroine, Jasmine, goes beyond imposed limitations, regulations, and stereotypes and paints an optimistic picture of the immigant’s continual transformation and growth in the host culture.