Jasmine (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Bharati Mukherjee
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Freedom, 1960’s, 1970’s, Self-discovery, Caribbean, Midwest, American Dream, 1980’s, Asia or Asians, Immigration or emigration, Adultery, India or East Indian people, Servants, Ambition, Aliens, illegal, Refugees, Asian Americans, Parties
- Locales: New York, NY, Florida, Baden, IA, Hasnapur, India
Soon after garnering the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award for her second collection of short stories, titled The Middleman, and Other Stories, Mukherjee published her exciting and accomplished novel Jasmine. In fact, the novel grew out of one of the Middleman stories, also titled “Jasmine,” whose protagonist persisted in the author's imagination, demanding to be reincarnated or born again in a lengthier genre. Jasmine is a novel about survival; it is also an account of an immigrant minority woman's metamorphosis, self-invention, and...
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