Neo-Diasporic Consciousness in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine and Miss New India Mishra Kalpana*,*, Dr. Sthitaprajna**,** *Research Scholar, Department of HSS, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India **Associate Professor, Dept of HSS, ITER, SOA University, Bhubanewar, India * kplnms@gmail.com
** prajna311@gmail.com
Abstract Bharati Mukherjee is an internationally acclaimed writer, exploring the condition of displacement and the significance of one's root. She has fused her own experiences as an expatriate and as an immigrant, to create a new consciousness that embodies her sense of what it means to be a woman Diaspora in the modern globalized world. She has explored many facets of diasporic sensibilities and immigrants’ experiences of dislocation and relocation in her fictions. Her novels depict the issues of her own cultural location in India, displacement from India to Canada as an expatriate and relocation in the USA as a naturalized citizen. This article is an in-depth analysis of two diasporic women characters of her later novels who belong to the same category and class and struggle in their adopted spaces with almost the same attitudes. Their transformation is a result of their changing identities, outlook and way of living. This study also aims at probing into the attitude of the novelist towards the entire issue of dislocation in the post-colonial environment which she has expressed through the narration of these two characters. Top Keywords Alienation, Consciousness, Diaspora, Displacement, Exile, Expatriate, Globalization, Identity, Nostalgia, Transformation. Top |