IDENTITY QUESTS AND DIFFICULTIES OF INTERCULTURAL DIALOG IN IMMIGRANT LITERATURE
IDENTITY QUESTS AND DIFFICULTIES OF INTERCULTURAL DIALOG IN IMMIGRANT LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: This article examines the identity and communication difficulties that immigrants or their descendants face when trying to adjust to their new home while preserving their old cultural values. As it tries to offer a general perspective of these issues, the present article relies on a rich but synthesized critical framework and borrows examples from well-known texts such as: Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Third and Final Continent", Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Monica Ali's Brick Lane, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's "The Teacher", Yiyun Li's A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers and Hari Kunzru's "Raj, Bohemian" in order to facilitate the understanding of the existence in multiple an in-between spaces.

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