Possibilities of New Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's Short Stories
| Autor: | Lixing Gu, 顧力行 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 106 The thesis focuses on the diasporic identity issues in Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story collection Unaccustomed Earth. Criticism tends to mix the different diasporic identity problems that respectively confront the first-generation immigrants in Lahiri’s first work The Interpreter of Maladies and the second-generation Bengali American protagonists in Unaccustomed Earth. However, these two generation immigrants face distinct diasporic experiences; thus it is necessary to distinguish the issues conveyed in Unaccustomed Earth from those in The Interpreter of Maladies. The thesis argues that the second-generation protagonists in Unaccustomed Earth grapple with their diasporic identity dilemma that they are stuck between Bengali and American cultures by cross-ethnic marriage and moving elsewhere. In order to better perceive the issues in Unaccustomed Earth, Chapter One explores what diasporic identity issues the first-generation immigrants face and how they handle them in The Interpreter of Maladies. Chapter Two and Chapter Three respectively examine how cross-ethnic marriage and moving elsewhere help the second-generation Bengali American protagonists position their identities in Unaccustomed Earth. The thesis concludes that readers are inspired to notice the significance and possibility of transforming an individual’s cultural identity in the cosmopolitan era. |
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