Jasmine Summary
Bharati Mukherjee

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Jasmine Summary

Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine, the story of a widowed Punjabi peasant reinventing herself in America, entered the literary landscape in 1989, the same year as Salmon Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Rushdie, also an Indian writer, received international attention for his novel when a fatwa (or death threat) was issued against him. The fatwa essentially proclaimed it a righteous act for any Muslim to murder Rushdie. Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven, Jill Ker Conway's The Road...

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Bharati Mukherjee Biographies (3)

Bharati Mukherjee

3,157 words, approx. 11 pages

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 ... Read more

Bharati Mukherjee

1,706 words, approx. 6 pages

In the tradition of novels in English about India, Bharati Mukherjee's novels carry a special weight. Unlike E. M. Forster, Paul Scott, and J. G. Farrell, she writes as a novelist who grew up in Calcu... Read more

Bharati Mukherjee

4,322 words, approx. 15 pages

Bharati Mukherjee has developed a reputation for exploring, through her writings, the meeting of the Third World and the First from the perspective of the immigrant to North America--to Canada and to ... Read more