Volume V Special Issue III August 2025

Name of Author : Aswathy.S.S, Dr. P. Parthiban

Title of the paper : The Transformations of Jasmine Feminist Rebirth through Migration and Identity Reconstruction

Abstract: This paper examines the feminist transformation of Jasmine, the protagonist in Bharati Mukherjees novel Jasmine, through her migration and subsequent identity reconstruction. The novel explores Jasmines evolution as she navigates the complexities of exile, gender, and cultural displacement. As an immigrant woman, Jasmine experiences a clash between her traditional roots in rural India and the modern, yet alien, society of America. Mukherjee painstakingly follows her protagonists medley of struggles with the complications of identity, survival, and the complexities of being a female immigrant. Examining the theme of resilience, and self discovery, Jasmines journey includes her efforts to reconstruct her life while transcending many socio cultural changes. Throughout examining the shifts in Jasmines life, the larger narrative of gender crisis and migration is examined, bearing witness to Mukherjees depiction of immigration told through the perspective of a woman who survives to autonomy and self empowerment in an unknown world.

Keywords : Rebirth, immigrants, identity, expatriation and assimilation.

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Page Number : 32-36