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Gender Fluidity Nay Transgenderism:Rehashing Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine


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Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine is very well acclaimed and celebrated novel among feminists who applaud Jasmine as the representative of new spirit of women in diasporic space. The present attempt is to revisit. Jasmine through an altogether different or contrastive lens by putting her in a gender fluid or transgender position. Before going deep in to this discussion, it would be pertinent to clear my stance on transgenderism as it is always mistaken as the synonyms of transsexual. To put simply, gender is a psychological and social term whereas sex is physical and biological.
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Department of English, Hindu College Sonepat, Haryana, India

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Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine is very well acclaimed and celebrated novel among feminists who applaud Jasmine as the representative of new spirit of women in diasporic space. The present attempt is to revisit. Jasmine through an altogether different or contrastive lens by putting her in a gender fluid or transgender position. Before going deep in to this discussion, it would be pertinent to clear my stance on transgenderism as it is always mistaken as the synonyms of transsexual. To put simply, gender is a psychological and social term whereas sex is physical and biological.

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