LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:8 August 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Immigration and Identity in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine and Desirable Daughters

M. Ravichandran, M.Phil., M.Ed., Ph.D. Research Scholar
Dr. T. Deivasigamani, Ph.D, M.Phil., M.Ed.

Multiple Dislocations of Personal Life

Bharati Mukherjee is one of the most celebrated writers of the Asian immigrant experience in America. Her writings are largely honed by the multiple dislocations of her personal life, which itself has been described as a text in a kind of perennial immigration. Immigration and Identity in the fiction of Mukherjee, examine how post-colonialism affects identity formation in contemporary women's immigrant literature. Immigrant literature is increasingly interested in the transnational experiences of its protagonists and is not simply about migrating to and making it in America, but engage with the literal and metaphorical crossing and re-crossing of borders.

Mukherjee’s Jasmine and Desirable Daughters, explore the symbolic significance of these characters representing Indian migrants to the U.S. These novels discuss the depiction of the development of personal identity of Indian migrant women in the U.S. and their confusion, the dilemma of adjusting between two different cultures. The writer portrays the contours of the character's transited identity that are in constant negotiation and transformation because of the interaction between the past and the present.

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M. Ravichandran, M.Phil., M.Ed., Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of English
Annamalai University
Annamalainagar
Tamilnadu
India

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Department of English
TBML College
Porayar 609 307
Tamilnadu
India
drdeivasigamani@yahoo.co.in

Dr. T. Deivasigamani, Ph.D., M.Phil., M.Ed.
Department of English
Annamalai University
Annamalainagar
Tamilnadu
India
drdeivasigamani@yahoo.co.in
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