Construction of Female Identity in Jasmine and Wife : A Comparative Study
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
The female protagonists of Bharati Mukherjee are passing through different stages and phases of their life while searching for their identity in a callous and confined environment. Mukherjee’s characterization and her wider thematic spectrum and design envisage multi-culturalism of American democracy and the neo-nationalism of the immigrants like her. This can be fully analyses and understood only when we make a detailed chronological and close scrutiny of the novels of Bharati Mukherjee. The central vision of her novels depicts the protagonist’s gradual confrontation with cultural disparities and the quest for female-identity that in turn make her a heroic woman. There is a constant endeavor on the part of critics and scholars to analyse the vision and works of Bharati Mukherjee as migrant in the United States, which they study and understand in terms of her quest for cultural hybridity, a feminist outlook, a post-colonial vision and a diasporic strife.
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Kamlesh .
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