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	Jasmine - by Bharati Mukherjee
		Jasmine, the protagonist of the novel, undergoes several transformations during her journey of life in America, from Jyoti to Jasmine to Jane, and often experiences a deep sense of estrangement resulting in a fluid state of identity.
		Jasmine sets off on an agonizing trip as an illegal immigrant to Florida, and thus begins her symbolic trip of transformations, displacement, and a search for identity.
		Jasmine sways between the past and the present attempting to come to terms with the two worlds, one of "nativity" and the other as an "immigrant".
	www.sawf.org /newedit/edit04302001/bookreview.asp (910 words)

	LITR 5733 Seminar in American Culture UHCL 1999 sample research project
		Jasmine's relationship with her father seems similar to her attitude toward her birthname; neither had any direct influence upon her life beyond the surface, and neither are used or seen much in the novel.
		Jasmine is not coming to America to follow the American Dream of "Life, Liberty and Happiness", but rather to fulfill the traditional role of the Indian widow who flings herself onto her husbarp uneral pyre.
		Jasmine throughout the novel realizes her names are tied to the men she loved: "I have had a husband for all of the women I have been.
	coursesite.cl.uh.edu /HSH/Whitec/LITR/4333/models/1999/p99lively.htm (3850 words)

	Span number 36 Postcolonial Fictions: Ralph J. Crane
		Jasmine's journey to maturation can be divided into four distinct stages (paralleling, in number at least, the four stages of traditional Hindu life), each of which is represented by a change of name, or reincarnation, and which, in leaving its own scars leads Jasmine to a greater awareness of her female self-identity.
		Jasmine's birth in the village of Hasnapur, Jullundhar District, Punjab, India, is carefully stated to signpost her cultural identity.
		Although Jasmine is a celebration of female identity, it is important to note that for each of her incarnations Jasmine has a husband: "I have had a husband for each of the women I have been.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/litserv/SPAN/36/Crane.html (3181 words)

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		Jasmine's metamorphosis, however, is so complicated in nature that some of her instabilities lead almost all of the readers to an interest in the meaning of disorder and unpredictability in the novel.
		Jasmine is the most significant of her five names, as it becomes the title of the novel.
		The function of the "tornado" (Jasmine) in the novel is to "leave a path of destruction" (182), and to reposition her fatal stars.
	www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp /~nagahata/amlitchubu/koike.html (3947 words)

	Amazon.ca: Jasmine: Books: Bharati Mukherjee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Jasmine evolves from a poor girl in India to a nanny in NYC to the "wife" of a banker in middle America.
		Here, Jasmine is from an impoverished family in India proper, and we get a tour of subcontinental politics, Sikh separatism, and the mechanics of immigrant smuggling before she even makes it to the States.
		Jasmine is supposed to be a fiercely intelligent but largely uneducated woman, but her voice in the novel has a sanguine, middle-class ring to it.
	www.amazon.ca /Jasmine-Bharati-Mukherjee/dp/0802136303 (1826 words)

	Span number 34-5 'Diasporas' Anne Brewster
		The heady exuberance of Jasmine and Mukherjee's reading of the novel's celebratory nationalism contrast markedly with the disillusionment of the earlier Canadian novel and the bitterness of her outspoken article on racism, 'An Invisible Woman' (1981), and its scathing critique of Canadian racism.
		Jasmine and Du, on the other hand, are Bud's 'others'; Bud worries that 'we'll never really have Du to ourselves, that he'll always be attached in occult ways to an experience he can't fathom' (231) and Jasmine relates that 'my genuine foreignness frightens him [ie Bud]' (26).
		Jasmine's remarks that with the demise of the Iowa farming community, 'I see a way of life coming to an end,' and that here there was being enacted 'a final phase of a social order that had gone on untouched for thousands of years' (229), have clearly symbolic significance.
	www.eng.fju.edu.tw /worldlit/india/mukherjee_nationalism.htm (3239 words)

	The Technological Hybrid as Post-American: Cross-Cultural Genetics in "Jasmine." - novel by Bharati Mukherjee - ...
		It is the willingness of Jasmine and others of Mukherjee's ethnic characters to murder their past selves that enables them to actively advance into unknown but promising futures.
		Jasmine murders herself in order to recreate different selves, but she can never wholly deny, forget, or escape the previous ones.
		As much as Mukherjee figures Jasmine as a subject who makes fleeing her past (India, her family, her fate, even her names) a virtue, Jasmine is continually evoking that past and re-fashioning it and herself.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_4_24/ai_63323864 (964 words)

	"Pultar"
		As the novel proceeds between flashbacks of contrastive and conflicting portrayals of mutually alien cultures and locales, the tensions inherent in the process of Americanization of the Asians are admirably displayed.
		However, unlike most other ethnic novels, it is not directed against any hegemonic cultural group such as the Anglos, but constitutes, in the candid, pseudo-picaresque narration by the protagonist herself of her Americanization, one of the harshest indictments of nothing less than the American way of life itself.
		For Jasmine, the life she is made to lead with the professor's family, generously hospitable in a manner only Orientals are able to be, is nevertheless another sort of immuration, and, not unnaturally, she wants out.
	www.bilkent.edu.tr /~jast/Number2/Pultar.html (3239 words)

	Jasmine Study Guide by Bharati Mukherjee
		Jasmine is the story of a young Punjabi woman named Jasmine whose life takes her from India to the United States, where she lives out many different destinies.
		As the novel begins, Jasmine is a seven-year-old girl.
		As Jasmine runs away from the astrologer, she falls and a twig cuts her forehead.
	www.bookrags.com /studyguide-jasmine (148 words)

	Review on Jasmine - Bharti Mukherjee by Heng2005 - MouthShut.com
		Jasmine used to be traditional Punjabi girl from the village of Hasnapur who was haunted by the partition of Pakistan and India dragging from family down from Paradise.
		Jasmine always faces unexpected events; marriage at very young age, her father died by the bull hit, her husband died from the terrorist explosion, and she was raped after
		Jasmine kept this secret for 2 years, and she felt that this is her real family even though the child is not her genetic child.
	www.mouthshut.com /review/Jasmine_-_Bharti_Mukherjee-119823-1.html (582 words)

	The Hindu : America inside out
		In the novels, short stories and essays she has written over the last two decades and more, she has chosen to present herself as an enthusiastic American and tended to answer "yes" with regard to the option of assimilation to America.
		In her 1991 novel Jasmine, for example, the protagonist leaves the constricting orthodoxy of India for the freedom and opportunity of America.
		Jasmine's experiences in America are not all pleasant; nevertheless, at the end of the novel Mukherjee has Jasmine driving from Iowa towards California, going west in pursuit of her future in a recognisably American way, eager to reinvent herself yet again as an American.
	www.hindu.com /lr/2004/03/07/stories/2004030700020100.htm (1522 words)

	What's Destiny and Free Will Got to Do with It?
		The book Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee is a book about a young Indian girl who stands out in her family as a child with a desire to be educated.
		Jasmine refuses both job titles instead; she goes on to say that, she would like to be a doctor, and set up her own clinic in the town.
		In conclusion, Jasmines state self-inflicted exile, her loss of her father, and Prakash, and also the pain and separation from her loved ones leads her in the quest for an identity in this strange and foreign land- America.
	goingnuclear.blogster.com /destiny_got_it.html (1112 words)

	Final Thoughts on the Floating World
		Jasmine does this by the people that she meets, the relationships she has and by the places that she travels.
		Not knowing what to do next Jasmine is walking along a countryside road when she is picked up by a woman who has helped other illegal immigrants before.
		Jasmine is given some basic information about U.S. society and then seeks to find a friend of her husband.
	jbradley.blogster.com /final_thoughts_floating.html (968 words)

	Jasmine (novel) Summary
		The author of six highly praised novels, two collections of short stories, and a smattering of nonfiction works, Bharati Mukherjee reflects her personal experiences in crossing cultural boundaries in her writings.
		In novels such as Jasmine, The Tiger's D...
		Jasmine(1989) is a novel by Bharati Mukherjee set in the present about a young Indian woman in the United States who, trying to adapt to the American way of life in order to be able to survive, changes identities several times.
	www.bookrags.com /Jasmine_(novel) (281 words)

	Amazon.com: No One Is Innocent (Jasmine Myers Mysteries): Books: Gayle Tiller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Jasmine Myers, a private investigator, is hired by the beautiful Kristal Woods to find out who killed her husband, president of the Black Firefighters in the San Jose Fire Department.
		In the opening of the novel Jasmine is hired by Kristal Woods, a highly respected community leader, to investigate the mysterious death of Kristal's husband Ralph, who was a member of the San Jose, California Fire Department and President of the San Jose Black Firefighters.
		Jasmine Myers is a smart-mouthed private investigator assigned to a riveting new case.
	www.amazon.com /One-Innocent-Jasmine-Myers-Mysteries/dp/1401023525 (1649 words)

	MELUS: The Technological Hybrid as Post-American: Cross-Cultural Genetics in "Jasmine." - novel by Bharati Mukherjee - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is the willingness of Jasmine and others of Mukherjee's ethnic characters to murder their past selves that enables them to actively advance into unknown but promising futures.
		As much as Mukherjee figures Jasmine as a subject who makes fleeing her past (India, her family, her fate, even her names) a virtue, Jasmine is continually evoking that past and re-fashioning it and herself.
		Jasmine tells the story of a young girl born in the village of Hasnapur, India, who undergoes enormous personal and cultural disruptions and revisions, changes which are not finished by the close of the action.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_4_24/ai_63323864 (1140 words)

	ALL ABOUT ROMANCE (novels) reviews An Unlikely Outlaw by Rebecca Wade
		Jasmine Jamison wants to be an outlaw, live her own life, and do as she pleases, but after her latest silly joke, her fed-up father, Lee, issues the would-be bandit an ultimatum: Get married in the next thirty days, or be shipped off to a proper "ladies school" in the East.
		Jasmine soon learns that Brody is no common drifter, but is instead, a law-abiding Texas Ranger, a man who will honor his vows and the marriage, no matter how they came about.
		Jasmine is alternately described as "woman" and "girl," which suited her perfectly because I would never have taken her for a woman of twenty-four, considering her behavior.
	www.likesbooks.com /cgi-bin/bookReview.pl?BookReviewId=212 (693 words)

	02.06.03: Motherhood: Biological Asset or Social Liability?
		The second part of the novel is composed of the vignettes told by the daughters of their early lives.
		Jasmine’s frank acceptance and total understanding of her mother’s motives present the reader with interesting perspective.
		Throughout the novel the reader is presented with Jasmine’s understanding of her native Punjab and practices against the backdrop of American values and understanding.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/2002/6/02.06.03.x.html (3260 words)

	Jasmine Cresswell's Biography at The Romance Club
		Jasmine's background is international: She was born in Wales, educated in London, England, graduated early from high school, and received a diploma in technical French and German from the Lycee Francaise in London before joining the British Foreign Office.
		Jasmine accompanied her husband first to the States, then to Australia, and spent two years in Canada, before returning to Chicago, Illinois, where Malcolm continued his high-speed climb to the top of the corporate ladder.
		Jasmine is the mother of three daughters and one son, who are all amazingly tolerant of her addiction to writing.
	www.theromanceclub.com /authors/jasminecresswell/biography.htm (579 words)

	Exploring Bharati Mukherjee's Novel Jasmine - Associated Content
		Because Jasmine was brought up to serve to the needs of men, it took a good deal of time for her to adjust to the modern beliefs and ideals of her new husband, Prakash.
		Throughout Jasmine’s struggle with her own sense of nationalism coming over to America, it isn’t until she met Taylor and Wylie Hayes that she admits, “I finally became an American in an apartment on Claremont Avenue across the street from a Barnard College dormitory,” (p.
		Although Jasmine came over to America and lived and met lots of different people, it wasn’t until she had established a strong sense of family and a feeling of being wanted that she truly felt “American”.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/64509/error (556 words)

	Powell's Books - Jasmine by
		When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born.
		Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its shocking upheavals and its slow evolutionary steps, illuminates the making of an American mind; but even more powerfully, her story depicts the shifting contours of an America being transformed by her and others like her — our new neighbors, friends, and lovers.
		In Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee has created a heroine as exotic and unexpected as the many worlds in which she lives.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-9780802136305-5 (368 words)

	Simon & Schuster: A Sin and a Shame: A Novel (Trade Paperback) - Q&A
		Reverend Bush tells Jasmine that, when she asked for forgiveness, he was able to open his heart to her.
		And, I don't think Jasmine hurt a lot of people in the novel (at least I didn't mean for her to.) I think Jasmine always does the greatest damage to herself.
		In the novel, Mae Frances seems to be the mouthpiece for all nonbelievers, while Jasmine stands as testament to the misled and confused.
	www.simonsays.com /content/book.cfm?tab=1&pid=518051&agid=8 (1246 words)

	Jake and Jasmine
		"Jake and Jasmine" is another work from the talented C.D. Webb, author of "The Credence of Christopher Craig." "Jasmine" is his first novel, and although his writing style is not quite as refined as it is in his second novel, "Jasmine" is a wonderfully told story and an enjoyable read.
		The two are confronted not only with the inherent difficulties of a budding romance, but with the added pressure of achieving acceptance in their conservative and polar-opposite families.
		I would be hard pressed to think of a better love story for music lovers than "Jake and Jasmine." The novel is a wonderful piece of writing and places the most elegant of traditional literary themes, the love story, against a backdrop of classical music.
	www.angelfire.com /zine2/wordmyne/jake.html (364 words)

	TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN NOVELS STUDY PROJECTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		List and discuss all the characters in your novel, focusing on (a) the purpose of each character in the novel, (b) theme(s) the characters introduce and/or advance (c) use of dialect and social classes represented, and (d) lessons the characters teach in your novel.
		List and discuss all the characters in your novel, focusing on (a) the purpose of each character in the novel, (b) theme(s) the characters introduce or advance, (c) use of dialect and social classes represented, and (d) lessons the characters teach in your novel.
		Choose a character from the novel that you have definite feelings about (one whom you like or for whom you have sympathy or one whom you dislike or by whom you are repelled).
	courses.ncssm.edu /shlensky/Main/Novelstudy.htm (5258 words)

	JAST4 - Kuwahara
		Jasmines roots, like the fragrant flower she is named after, are embedded deep within Indian soil in Hasnapur, a village in India, yet she uproots herself and leaves for the promised land.
		On Jasmines life as a child sitting under a banyan tree listening to an astrologer predict her future, Mukherjee constructs the glitter of Karen Ripplemeyers two-storeyed mansion in Iowa in which she takes calls on her Suicide Hotline.
		However, at one level, Jasmine is a weak echo of the strong, long-suffering, sensuous, and vibrant heroines of Asian literature such as Savitri, Shakuntala, Chitra, and Draupadi, with their divine centers and consciousness of the ever-present connections between the divine and the human.
	www.bilkent.edu.tr /~jast/Number4/Kuwahara.html (2417 words)

	Novel Reviews: Scarlet Wizard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Despite being advertised as a romance, the focus is more on the platonic friendship of Kelly and Jasmine than any emotional commitment; they apparently sleep together only once during their first year of marriage, and that solely for procreation.
		In fact, though Jasmine loved Kelly for a very long time, he never admits that he cares for her as more than someone with whom to have fun, relying on his willingness to stay with her beyond the terms of his contract to convey his feelings.
		It may be frustrating to follow Kelly and Jasmine's lack of romantic progress, but their evident devotion to one another is enough to carry one through the short series and provide promise for the next.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~weyrbrat/fanfic/anime/novels/wizard.html (499 words)

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