Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine

This book atttempts to read Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine from a postmodernist perspective. It proceeds by accounting for the semantic instability that haunts the postmodernist discourse, its relation to modernism and feminism and its theoretical background docusing on the Derridian, the Barthesian and Foucauldian theories which inform my analysis of Jasmine. Then moves to scrutinize fragmentation which is created through the postmodenist mode of narration, intertextuality and paraody. The book evolves into mapping subjectivity attempting for its uses and connotations, the various attempt to theorize the subject: the humanist conception, tha Cartesian Cogitio, the Freudian revolution and the deconstructionist views then moves to scrutinize subjectivity under the light of the Foucauldian theory of discourse and power.