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From Jyoti to Jasmine: Mukherjee's Quest for Hybrid Identity in Jasmine
Abstract: The present paper investigates the empowering force of
hybridity in female diasporant in Bharati Mukherjeeās outstanding novel
Jasmine. The novel depicts Jasmineās journey of transformation from a
passive, traditional girl at the mercy of fate in a village in India to an active,
modern, and most importantly cross-cultural hybrid woman in America. All
through the novel, her identity is transformed in line with shifts in her name
from Jyoti to Jasmine to Jazzy to Jane. Accordingly, she stands in-between two
cultures, shuttles between identities, welds opposing identities, enters the third
space and emerges as a hybrid. The present study in the light of Homi Bhabha's
insights seeks to demonstrate that immigrating, experiencing displacement and
in-betweenness, and being positioned in the third space pave the way for
Jasmineās becoming a hybrid and being liberated. Besides, the study is to
depict by creating a hybrid character, Bharati Mukherjee, the author, alludes to
her own very hybridity
Od tradicije do suvremenosti: Ninina potraga za hibridnim identitetom u romanu Imigrantica Manju Kapur
The paper explores the liberating power of Bhabhaās concept of hybridity in Manju Kapurās novel The Immigrant. By concentrating on Ninaās immigration to Canada, the novel addresses her early affliction due to the cultural clash between the East and West, tradition and modernity, her assimilation problems, as well as her gradual assimilation, her in-betweenness, transformation in her roles and identity, and survival in the host world. She opens a space in-between the home and host culture, mediates between them, and becomes the citizen of two worlds; she thus enters the third space, i.e. she stands in-between two cultures prioritizing neither the home nor the host culture but the middle ground and emerges as a hybrid who occupies the in-between space and develops a double vision. Using Homi Bhabhaās insights, this study seeks to demonstrate that being positioned in the third space, i.e. moving beyond the polarities and challenging the fixedness of identity and experiencing in-betweenness ā being neither one nor the other, might pave the way for her liberation. The paper is to show that Nina is neither one nor the other, i.e. neither a traditional nor a modern woman but both, simultaneously transcending and reconciling the tradition and modernity.Rad prouÄava oslobaÄajuÄu moÄ Bhabhinog koncepta hibridnosti u romanu Imigrantica Manju Kapur. PrateÄi imigriranje protagonistice Nine u Kanadu, roman prikazuje njezine poÄetne teÅ”koÄe zbog kulturalnih razlika izmeÄu Istoka i Zapada, tradicije i suvremenosti, njezine probleme s asimilacijom kao i njezin život izmeÄu dvije sredine, promjenu njezine druÅ”tvene uloge i identiteta te preživljavanje u novom svijetu. Nina ulazi u prostor izmeÄu vlastite i nove kulture, posreduje izmeÄu njih i živi u oba svijeta; na taj naÄin, ona postaje dijelom treÄeg prostora, tj. nalazi se u sredini ne dajuÄi prednost ni jednoj ni drugoj kulturi, hibridom koji nastanjuje prostor izmeÄu te razvija dvostruku svijest. Cilj je ovog rada primjenom Homi Bhabhinih teorijskih koncepata pokazati da biti dijelom treÄeg prostora, tj. nadiÄi suprotnosti, propitati ukalupljenost identiteta i iskusiti život u sredini ā ne pripadati ni jednoj ni drugoj kulturi ā može funkcionirati kao oblik Ninina osloboÄenja. Nina nije ni tradicionalna ni suvremena žena nego oboje jer istovremeno i nadilazi i pomiruje tradiciju i suvremenost