• Dr Usha Sakure

With the floating population, and the inevitable merger, culture is growing, shaped and formulated. This is what is mostly dealt by the contemporary fiction writers. The term Diaspora is applied to the migrants or the people who have been displaced from their own very root, have emigrated from their own land due to unaccountable reasons. Bharati Mukherjee is a versatile writer with great creative sensibilities acknowledged as a major voice of the expatriate – immigrant’s sensibilities in modern fiction. In the novel ‘Jasmine’ she portrays an Indian woman who is pushed at the threshold struggling miserably to save her Indian self. Jasmine is a story of transformation and assimilation of diverse cultural societies and the writer presents the true picture of the life of the migrants. The feeling of displacement ends and Jasmine ultimately settles down as an independent American girl from a docile village girl which reflects the literary exuberance of the great writer Bharati Mukherjee.

Culture, Diaspora, displacement, relocation, assimilation.

"From Turmoil to Self Actualization -The Diasporic Journey In Bharati Mukherjee’s - ‘Jasmine.’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 3, page no.170-173, March-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2003326.pdf

"From Turmoil to Self Actualization -The Diasporic Journey In Bharati Mukherjee’s - ‘Jasmine.’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 3, page no. pp170-173, March-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2003326.pdf