• Dr. G.Serwani Swamy

This is an effort to bring about the nuances of diasporic consciousness mapping multicultural dynamics, in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine, negotiating regeneration and transformation in multicultural dimension. It focuses the notion of cultural crisis due to spatial dislocations.These immigrants are shown in cultural confrontation striving for the identity in the host country, encountering alien and ethnic identity. Bharati Mukherjee’s world of immigrants and their desperate need to belong to the new world bring a sense of cross-cultural adventure to her novels. Her characters undergo exilic and immigration conditions, which also produces a number of psychological issues. They symbolize cross-cultural consciousness and multicultural adaptations that portrays ability to survive and transform. The paper aims to explore Bharati Mukherjee’s intriguing character Jasmine, a portrayal of new diaspora, with the diverse identities, evolving in multiple ethnic communities in multiple displaced places every moment striving to acquire a new identity and modern host culture. The regeneration and transformation of identities in the cross cultural alien nation is the result of existing multiculturalism. Jasmine, the main character exhibits stages of metamorphosis, in terms of identities, character and culture in predominant society, around which probes Hall’s concept of cultural identity. Through Mukherjee‘s novel, Indian cultural identity is depicted in a state of vacillation, establishing multiculturalism in multinational country.

Immigration, Cultural Identity, Regeneration, Transformation And Multiculturalism

"Multicultural Diaspora: Examining Cross-cultural Consciousness and Multicultural Adaptations in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no.k164-k167, June-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206A19.pdf

"Multicultural Diaspora: Examining Cross-cultural Consciousness and Multicultural Adaptations in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 6, page no. ppk164-k167, June-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2206A19.pdf