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Milt Glasser In Jasmine By Bharati Mukherjee Summary

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CONCLUSION Bharati Mukherjee is one of the most celebrated writers of the Asian immigrant in America. Assimilation, they assert, would be the answer to the discontents of Diaspora. Immigrant experiences are a composite one made up of journeys and borders crossings. Migration leads to separation. The immigrant lands herself in a new country and a new culture. As a result there is a cultural conflict in her mind. The immigrant looks back to her mother country with pain and nostalgia. Married to a Canadian-North American Clark Blaise, Mukherjee faces demeaning conditions in Canada. Herself an immigrant, Mukherjee shows the darker side of immigration that is not often portrayed in other immigrant narratives. Degraded and victim to dissection in …show more content…

The expression of sexuality is released from age-old bonding to let go their servile selves. They are allured to the attractions finally, being treated as individuals. The ‘hamburger’ and ‘pizza’ culture of America torments Dimple in Wife. The tin culture of America somehow bewilders her. She rates herself as a novice in the culture and thinks that she could have been a better wife if she could produce more glamorous left over. The killing of Amit Basu by Dimple is to release herself from a difficult marriage. The difficulties are internalized in Dimple herself, with Amit playing a part in aggravating the situation. The ultimate catastrophe that befalls Amit would have been the other way round in Indian culture, women, instead of retaliating, succumb to their distress. In America, Dimple tries to question her emotional break-down, takes steps to restore her emotions. Her strife establish herself in the American culture is her quest of identity as an individual. She refuses to be a daughter to her father and a wife to Amit. Her own gender limitations are a hurdle in her path to submersion in the New

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