Jasmine,The 1985-Novel By Mukherjee, Explores, In a Radical and Violent Way, the Danger– But Also the Potential – Represented By Displacements and Uprootedidentities. In the Novel, the Pivotal Play of Migrations, Forced and Voluntary,Literal and Figurative, Found In the Plural Female Subjectivity of the Youngprotagonist/Narrator – Initially Named Jyoti Vijh – Represents the Dislocationand Progress Within the Tangled Framework of the Protagonist’S/Narrator’Spersonal History, a 24-Year History That Moves With Astonishing Speed from Thepunjabi Village of Hasnapur to the Urban Centre of Jullundhur, to the Gulfcoast of Florida, to a Hindu Ghetto In Queens, to Upper-Class Manhattan, to Thefarming Landscapes of Small-Town Baden, In Iowa, and Finally to California, Ina Certain Way Closing Successfully Jyoti’S Journey from East to West.