Abstract
This paper anatomizes Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine in the perspective of cultural assimilation and determines the extent of establishing cosmopolitan identity through discourse. The researcher uses the theoretical framework propounded by Appiah to examine the contribution and representation of literary globalization in the making of ‘universal citizen’ whose cultural and geographical boundary crossing results into the formation of post-modern fluid identities. Methodologically, this qualitative content analysis uses the joint venture of Appiah’s concept of cosmopolitanism and Fairclough’s notion of naturalization focusing on three scenarios which specify an acceptance of differences, accentuation of differences, and attempt to resolve the differences. The analysis reflects that boundary crossing by the immigrants has formed fluidity and has given exponential boost to the idea of harmony and coexistence. It also reveals that this transformation of identity owes to the discourse of the dominant culture which reshapes fundamental knowledge and values for the individuals of minorities. However, it also signifies that postmodern cosmopolitan fluidity continues to thrive.
Highlights
In today’s technologically advanced and globalized world, living in harmony, coexistence, and peace with others is impossible
It signifies that postmodern cosmopolitan fluidity continues to thrive
This paper aims at meeting the following research objectives by analyzing Mukerjee’s Jasmine in the light of the notions of cosmopolitanism and discourse: to examine the extent to which the discourse of a dominant culture magnetizes smaller cultures as a result of which a new cosmopolitan identity emerges
Summary
In today’s technologically advanced and globalized world, living in harmony, coexistence, and peace with others is impossible. Cosmopolitan ideology clarifies that human groups belong to a single universal community. Bohman and Lutz comment, it is the moral obligation of world citizen to drag the spheres by some means towards the centre which make all human beings our fellow city denizens For its constitution, owes to the resources of meaning-making which language provides to social actors in a community. These resources, which range from simple linguistic units to highly complicated images, perform primary role in shaping and reshaping social beliefs and, the relationships and identities of people. Stuart Hall refers to the same unlimited potentiality of language when he says that meaning-making resources constitute social reality and form knowledge and identity within specific social contexts and power relations Stuart Hall refers to the same unlimited potentiality of language when he says that meaning-making resources constitute social reality and form knowledge and identity within specific social contexts and power relations (1997, p. 220)
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