Struggle For Identity In Bharati Mukherjee’s ‘Jasmine’

Abstract

An Indian born American novelist and short story writer Bharati Mukherjee’s works reflect struggle life and search for identity of woman. Her Jasmine novel exposes how Jasmine, the female protagonist as an Indian culture woman, strives to shape her identity to fit in the American society. In this novel, ‘Jasmine’ was renamed many times according to circumstances during her life’s struggle. Even through her name changed several times but her confidance remained unwavering. This paper tries to explore how Mukherjee’s female protagonist ‘Jasmine’ struggles for her own identity.