MODERNIST DIMENSIONS OF CULTURAL CHANGE IN JHUMPA LAHIRI’S IN OTHER WORDS Cover Image

MODERNIST DIMENSIONS OF CULTURAL CHANGE IN JHUMPA LAHIRI’S IN OTHER WORDS
MODERNIST DIMENSIONS OF CULTURAL CHANGE IN JHUMPA LAHIRI’S IN OTHER WORDS

Author(s): Adriana Elena Stoican
Subject(s): Comparative Study of Literature
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: abstract art; autobiography; Matisse; modernism; transcultural; transnational;

Summary/Abstract: Relying on a cultural studies approach to literary texts, this paper analyzes Jhumpa Lahiri’s recent embrace of the autobiographical form as a radical change, associated with a modernist strategy of innovation. The central theme of the author’s fictional work is the process of self-understanding experienced mainly by second-generation members of the Bengali community in New England. This paper starts from the premise that, as well as her characters, the author follows a transcultural path to redefinition via her relocation to a different space (Italy). This argument investigates the significance of Henri Matisse’s visual universe in relation to Lahiri’s transcultural metamorphosis.

  • Issue Year: 15/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 235-251
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English
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