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There are 4 critical essays on Jasmine (novel).

Critical Essays on Jasmine (novel)
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Critical Essay by Kristin Carter-Sanborn
7,315 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, Carter-Sanborn discusses the place of identity and violence in Mukherjee's Jasmine.
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Critical Essay by Suzanne Kehde
3,537 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Kehde analyzes Mukherjee's focus on the myth of America as Eden and Jasmine's identification first and foremost as a woman in Mukherjee's Jasmine.
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Critical Review by Gary Boire
1,016 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Boire asserts that Mukherjee's "Jasmine is a tremendously interesting work, not simply because it foregrounds characters and situations and nationalities so often disguised or dismissed in the western/American tradition, but primarily because of Mukherjee's ironic nuance and sinewy revisionism."
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Critical Review by Michael Gorra
976 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Gorra discusses Mukherjee's expansion of her short story "Jasmine" into a novel and asserts "she's done so without losing a short story's virtues, above all its sense of speed and compression, its sense of a life distilled into its essence."


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