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Record W2510892785

A Study of Alienation and Disharmony in Bharathi Mukherjee’s Jasmine

2016· article· en· W2510892785 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
B. Sangamitra

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Literature, Languages and Linguistics · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSouth Asian Cinema and Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCourageAlienationIdentity (music)ImmigrationGender studiesDreamSociologyLiteratureHistoryLawPolitical scienceArtAestheticsPsychology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Alienation is the unbearable rift between a human being and self. The state of exile is a sense of loss. The pain of separation and dislocation makes Barathi Mukerjee’s novel “jasmine” a quest for identity in an alien land. Jasmine the protagonist of the novel under goes several transformations during her journey of life in America. Her journey becomes a tale of moral courage, a search for self-awareness and self-assertion. Jasmine sways between the past and present attempting to come to terms with the two world’s one of nativity and the other as an immigrant. Caught between the cultures of the east and west, past and present, old and new jasmine experiences alienation and disharmony. Jasmine tries to establish a new cultural identity in exile and she ultimately cultivates new habits and expressions of life. Born in Calcutta and now a distinguished Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Barathi Mukerjee was the first naturalized American citizen to win the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. She is also the author of leave it to me, The holder of the world, Darkness, The Tiger’s Daughter, and Wife . Bharati Mukherjee was born on July 27, 1940 in Calcutta, India. She was born into a wealthy family, which assisted her in her dream of becoming a writer. She lived in India, Europe, the United States, and Canada. Migrating to these countries that are so different from her place of birth enabled her to write very powerful novels on immigrant experiences. Mukherjee’s novels focus on exploring the migration and the feeling of alienation that is experienced by these immigrants. Her works have explored such themes as isolation, sexism, discrimination, the mistreatment of Indian women, and exploring identities. The novel Jasmine follows the life of the title character from her birth in a rural village in India to her adulthood in the United States. Jasmine, which changes her name even as she recreates herself again.  The course of Jasmine's life unfolds in five vastly different locations across the globe, beginning in the Punjab, continuing across the Atlantic Ocean in Florida, New York, Iowa, and finally on the other side of the continent in California. Major themes explored in the novel include rebirth, identity, alienation, and free will. The journey of Jasmine, as presented in the novel, touches the readers making them feel  for her. The journey of Jasmine appears to have a direct association to with the subject of alienation and in this process, offers an insight into the issue of disharmony. ‘Jasmine’ is based on the idea of the marriage of the East and the West, with a story that portrays a Hindu Indian woman whose husband is murdered. Being widowed at the age of seventeen, Jasmine leaves India for the United States. Through a series of events including her number of problems and getting raped, shatters her completely.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.522
Threshold uncertainty score0.201

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.254 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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