Mrs. Purnima Gupta Asst. Prof. in English Govt. Degree College, Samthar,Jhansi(U.P.) The contemporary time is the most suitable time for the full fledged development of the marginalized sections of the society such as woman and the scheduled class.Woman has been at the bottom of social hierarchy in Indian patriarchal set up for a long time;She…
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Fluid Identity: Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine
Dr. Asha Susan Jacob Associate Professor Postgraduate Department of English St. Thomas College Kozhencherry Kerala 689641 A ubiquitous term taken for granted, identity is an intrinsically psycho-social concept with multifarious temporal and spatial connotations. Defined generally as “who or what somebody is” the term is derived from the French word identité, which has its etymological…
New Woman in Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife Jasmine and The Tree Bride
Jyoti Tabita Hermit Research Scholar University of Allahabad Allahabad. The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. From equal status with men in ancient times, through the low points of the medieval period to the promotion of equal rights by many reformers, the history of…
The Spiritual Sense of Alienation in Diasporic Life: Reading Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta and Jhumpa Lahiri
Dr. Amit Shankar Saha Kolkata, India. Exile, in its literal sense, is a physical condition but the sense of exile is not necessarily a manifestation of a dislocated existence. Even if there is a geographical displacement, the exilic condition in many cases is only superficially physical and fundamentally psychological and spiritual. The external exile either…