The Quest For Female Identity In Bharati Mukherjee's Novel Jasmine

Abstract

Bharati Mukherjee's women encounter self-division, alienation even madness as they seek to define themselves a new in their transition from the old World to the new world. She devotes greater efforts to the development of female characters than male characters. Her narrative method frequently employs satiric devices. This paper focuses on the novel of Jasmine the female character thus Jyoti-Jasmine-Jazzy-Jase-Jane transformation liberates her from the deforming past, empowers her and gives her a voice.