Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine - a Paradigm of Psychic Disintegration and Regeneration

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Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine - A Paradigm of Psychic Disintegration and Regeneration 526 Bharati Mukherjee Courtesy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharati_Mukherjee Abstract The term Diaspora refers to the dispersion of religious or ethnic groups from their established homeland either forced or voluntary. Initially this word was used for the dispersal of Jews when they were forced into exile to Babylonia. However, today it has come to mean any sizeable community of a particular nation or region living outside its own country and sharing some common bonds that give them an ethnic identity and consequent bonding. The contribution of Indian Diaspora to the world literature cannot be denied. The diasporic writers belong to different category; they have Indian origins, but live in the west, mainly England, Canada and the U.S.A. A large number of these diasporic writers have given expression to their creative urge and have brought credit to the Indian English Fiction as a Language in India www.languageinindia.com ISSN 1930-2940 13:3 March 2013 Mythili, M., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Research Scholar Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine - A Paradigm of Psychic Disintegration and Regeneration 527 distinctive force. The phenomenon of migration of Indian people to U.S.A. and other countries, their status there, and their nostalgic feelings for the mother country as well as their alienation to the new one is the major subject dealt by the Diasporic writers. The Indian-born American writer Bharati Mukherjee is one of the prominent novelists of Indian Diaspora. She has created a fair place for herself in the literary circle abroad, by her contribution to Indian English writing. Her commendable works place her in the class of great diasporic writers like Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bernard Malmud, Issac Babel, and Yashmine Gunratne. The traumas and the

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