바라티 무컬지의 『자스민』에 나타난 ‘이름’으로 상징되는 정체성의 정치

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the political meaning of the multiple births of identity in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine through the lens of postcolonial feminism, as the female narrator's spontaneous emergence of identity by her own choice. Mukherjee considers her marginalized situation not as static but as changeable as she forms her knowledge through the experiences of immigrants. She does not argue for a position that considers the confessional expression of immediate feelings as personal, but rather focuses on the politics of identity created by changing ‘names’ that is generated by giving voice to the historically marginalized. I want to emphasize that Mukherjee's novels show that despite the odyssey of hardships of all women who share the cultural space and the background of the times, they go through changes in body, mind and soul and form a strong identity of their own with aspirations to always move forward into the future.

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