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| Article Name : | | | Un-hyphenating Identity and The Assimilatory Strategies: Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine | | Author Name : | | | Mukesh Yadav and Shalini Yadav | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-551 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Diaspora Literature involves an idea of a homeland, a place from where the displacement occurs and narratives of harsh journeys undertaken on account of economic compulsions. Basically diaspora is a movement or migration of a group of people such as those sharing a national or ethnic identity away from an established homeland and a diasporic individual is an individual who disperses from an original centre to at least two peripheral places and maintains a memory, vision or myth about his/her homeland. Bharati Mukherjee is one of the Indian diasporic writer whose most memorable works reflect her pride in her Indian heritage, but also her celebration of embracing America. As she said in an interview in the Massachusetts Review, "the immigrants in my stories go through extreme transformations in America and at the same time they alter the country's appearance and psychological make-up."1 (645) In her own voice she tells the stories of her own experiences to show the changing shape of American society. She describes herself as unhyphenated American and not the hyphenated Indian- American title:“I maintain that I am an American writer of Indian origin, not because I'm ashamed of my past, not because I'm betraying or distorting my past, but because my whole adult life has been lived here, and I write about the people who are immigrants going through the process of making a home here....” 2 (654) | | Keywords : | | |
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