Smiling with Blood on the Tongue: Acceptable Sacrifices and the Annihilating Feminine in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine
The paper is a somewhat contrary defense against a chorus of critical attacks on the novel from scholars usually noted for their insightful criticism. The novel is faulted for defects in its literary elements, and stands accused of embedded messages of assimilation and muted resistance, essentialism...
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| Τόπος έκδοσης: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Μορφή: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Γλώσσα: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Περίληψη: | The paper is a somewhat contrary defense against a chorus of critical attacks on the novel from scholars usually noted for their insightful criticism. The novel is faulted for defects in its literary elements, and stands accused of embedded messages of assimilation and muted resistance, essentialism, sexism and racism, and many other attacks that this article takes issue with. A widening gulf between current critical reaction and readers’ reactions is discussed. The novel’s elaborate, comic, at times grotesque character modeling upon Hindu deities is found to be one reason for Jasmine’s continued resonance with the reading public. |
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