Immigration and Displacement: A Study of Identity Crisis in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine

The aim of the paper is to portray the identity crisis in the novel of Jasmine. Bharati Mukherjee explores her experience of immigration through her protagonist. She talks about the personal life of her throughout the novel. She depicts the struggle of women characters that have a desire to get their identity. They have been faced lot of obstacles in their migrated land. One can find ennumbers of diasporic writers but their inner root of diaspora is different person to person. Mukherjee has clearly portrayed the identity crises of a woman by adapting multicultural identity in her novel Jasmine. She has explained exploitation of Jasmine who is the protagonist of this novel. She focuses the bitter experiences of the protagonist such as oppression and displacement. Thus, Mukherjee talks about the wounds of a woman who lost her identity in the alienated land in order to acquire her identity in the multicultural diasporic world.