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Kasun, Genna Welsh. "Womanism and the Fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2009. http://library.uvm.edu/dspace/bitstream/123456789/203/1/Kasun.
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Marques, Carine Pereira. "Unaccustomed narratives crossing gender barriers in the fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri: crossing gender barriers in the fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECAP-956KQ2.
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Jhumpa Lahiri, escritora americana de origem Indiana, frequentemente aborda, tanto em seu romance, The Namesake (2003), como em seus livros de contos, The Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and Unaccustomed Earth (2008), sujeitos diaspóricos Indianos que residem nos Estados Unidos da América. Esta dissertação investiga como as personagens femininas e masculinas são representadas, assim como o impacto do espaço diaspórico nesses sujeitos e nas relações construídas por eles. Mostra ainda como as barreiras de gênero na obra dessa escritora contemporânea são mais fluídas, pois indicam uma aproximação na representação das personagens femininas e masculinas, que revelam diferentes, mas significantes preocupações com relação a seus papéis de gênero no novo espaço, no qual a diversidade cultural é um elemento importante que favorece a reconfiguração da identidade desses sujeitos. Em particular, este trabalho enfatiza a importância do espaço diaspórico no processo de formação da identidade das personagens. Assim, analiso as personagens femininas e masculinas com o intuito de investigar como o vínculo cultural muda de uma geração para a outra. Também enfoco as consequências do espaço nos papéis de gênero para entender como esses são reconfigurados para as personagens femininas e masculinas. Assim, a configuração dos papéis de gênero de personagens femininas e masculinas é entrelaçada, configurando-se como um processo interligado. Embora haja características atribuídas às distintas gerações, uma análise da obra dessa escritora revela uma preocupação com representações não
estereotipadas de personagens femininas e masculinas, e até mesmo aproxima diferentes gerações, unindo-as em torno do tema da perda e do pertencimento.
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Mulla, Ahmed. "Conflits identitaires dans la fiction de Jhumpa Lahiri." Phd thesis, Université de la Réunion, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00858613.
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S'inspirant de l'expérience récente de la migration indienne aux Etats-Unis, la fiction de Jhumpa Lahiri se demande si tant la nation que l'individu sont en mesure de revoir les termes mêmes de leur identité. Jhumpa Lahiri met l'accent sur l'adaptation à l'étranger en tant que processus de longue haleine. Car le changement ne prend pas, dans ce contexte, l'aspect d'une transformation subite ; il s'agit davantage d'une lente négociation entre une tradition surdéterminante et un futur sous-défini. Le meilleur éclairage que l'on puisse apporter à cette littérature de la diaspora, qui gagne en consistance et en légitimité avec l'avènement de la mondialisation, est offert par les outils de la critique postcoloniale. Bien qu'elle soit issue d'un contexte politique, cette école de pensée trouve sa pertinence dans la façon qu'elle a de poser les problèmes afférant à la possibilité de surmonter un passé conflictuel. Comment accepter l'étranger en soi ? Que faire de cette culture qui n'offre pas d'autre choix que celui de la capitulation ? Dans quelle mesure peut-on imaginer une identité où les conflits nés de valeurs contradictoires seraient ramenés à leur plus simple expression ? Notre essai consiste à découvrir de quelle manière le déplacement dû à l'exil induit une série de stratégies de préservation et de transformations identitaires. En dernier ressort, nous nous interrogerons sur les retombées de la conception lahirienne de l'identité, puisque cette romancière semble considérer que les racines et les traditions ne sont que d'une toute relative utilité lorsque l'on se trouve en terre étrangère.
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Niemi, Maarit Helena. "Interpreting the uncertainty in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “A Temporary Matter”." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-33342.
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An American author who is regarded as being a masterful storyteller when it comes to the struggle with immigrant identity is Jhumpa Lahiri. Those who have read her work would most likely agree with me that her texts provide the reader with an intimate and realistic insight into what it is like living between two or several cultures. How does she create this intimacy and feeling of first-hand immigrant experience? One defining feature of Lahiri’s writing is that she leaves many questions unanswered. In other words, there is an endless amount of “gaps” in her texts that it is up to the reader to fill with meaning. This is, from my point of view, an experience very true to life as there are many questions in life we can begin to attempt to answer. Along the journey towards finding an answer, you realize that you have simply ended up with even more questions unanswered. As Lahiri’s writing contains so much ambiguity, the text invites the reader to actively search for alternative interpretations, which is also a feature of this essay.
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Kemper, Brittany. "The Language of Diaspora in Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1304039140.
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Onmus, Selime. "Hybrid Identities In The Buddha Of Suburbia By Hanif Kureishi And The Namesake By Jhumpa Lahiri." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12615065/index.pdf.
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This thesis studies two novels: The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi and The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. There are characters with hybrid qualities in each novel and they tend to use or encouraged to use mimicry to find their identities and establish themselves in the cultures they live. Hence, the result of mimicry is ambivalence on both sides, the colonizer and the colonized. The first chapter is dedicated to explaining the theory of hybridity based on the ideas of leading theoreticians like, Homi Bhabha, Robert Young and others. The situation, problems and the coping strategies of character are studied in detail, in individual sections. The final chapter is dedicated to the comparison of the hybrid situations of the second generation male and female characters. Eventually it is seen that all hybrid characters, especially the second generation immigrants use mimicry to create their own &lsquoThird Space&rsquo
and find their own voices to exist in their environment.
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Ruia, Reshma. "A mouthful of silence and the place of nostalgia in diaspora writing : home and belonging in the short fiction of Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.553486.
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A Mouthful of Silence is a novel set in Manchester. It is about a middle-aged Indian man, PK Monghia, who is full of regrets and bitterness about getting old and the steady decline of his business. He still has an appetite for love and happiness, but feels trapped in his marriage to Geeta. Their only child, Sammy, is a disappointment too. Born after several miscarriages, he is the focus of excessive maternal devotion on the part of Geeta and an object of contempt in the eyes of PK, who wanted a sporty son, a reflection of his own golden youth. A new woman enters the barren landscape of PK's emotional life. She is Esther Solomon, rich, beautiful, vivacious. She is all that his life is not. She also happens to be the wife of a competitor, Cedric Solomon, who is successful and powerful and a constant reminder of what PK might have been. PK and Esther are drawn to each other and embark on a love affair that distracts PK and fills him with guilt that he pushes aside time and again. PK begins neglecting his business and his family, and he fails to notice his son's growing friendship and obsession with a more street-wise girl, Alice. Sammy gradually changes from a molly-coddled boy into a surly, uncommunicative teenager with secrets. Geeta meanwhile watches the slow unravelling of her family life, and PK is never quite sure whether she has discovered his affair. Events unfold that compel PK to make choices. He is forced to confront his ambiguous morality and to question the nature and meaning of love in all its guises. My thesis explores the main theoretical approaches surrounding diaspora and the concepts of home, belonging and nostalgia. It is my aim to extrapolate from the theoretical framework and apply their relevance and limitations to the study of the diasporic condition. My primary focus will be on the Indian diaspora within the United States and its portrayal in Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri's short fiction. More specifically, I wish to look closely at how nostalgia is both employed as a method and represented as a theme in creating and/or shaping the sense of belonging and home within their fictional narratives. Finally, I will place their work within the larger context of diaspora literature and analyse the overall diasporic literary response to established and often problematic understandings of nostalgia, home and belonging.
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Wollam, Ashley J. "Discovering the Narrator-Ideal in Postmodern Fiction." Marietta College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1210788218.
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Park, Kelly Cynthia. "Exploring Childhood and Maturity in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies." Marietta College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=marhonors1303483538.
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Alfonso-Forero, Ann Marie. "Translating Postcolonial Pasts: Immigration and Identity in the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee, Elizabeth Nunez, and Jhumpa Lahiri." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/577.
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This dissertation examines how postcoloniality affects identity formation in contemporary women's immigrant literature. In order to do so, it must interrogate the critical fields that are most interested in issues of national and cultural identities, migration, and the appropriation of women by both Western and postcolonial projects. By examining the fiction of Bharati Mukherjee, Elizabeth Nunez, and Jhumpa Lahiri through the triple lens of ethnic American studies, postcolonial theory, and transnational feminism, I will argue that theorizing postcolonial women's writing in the United States involves sustained analysis of how particular socio-political experiences are translated into the context of American identity. I am particularly interested in the manner in which female subjects in these texts navigate between the various and often contradictory demands placed on them by their respective homeland cultures and their new immigrant positions in the United States. Although each of these writers depict immigrant women protagonists who adapt to these demands in their own particular ways, a study of these characters' gendered and cultural identities reveals a powerful relationship between the manner in which women are figured into the preservation of the postcolonial nation-state and the ways in which these women utilize immigration as an occasion to appropriate and subvert this role in the establishment of a new, negotiated identity. This project draws on three important and current fields of interest to both cultural and literary studies. Postcolonial studies, which has been central to the study of literature by minority writers, provides a useful foundation for understanding hybrid identities, dislocation, and the ways in which empire gave rise to nationalisms that utilized women in the formation and preservation of the nation-state. Transnational feminist theories are critical to understanding the implications of nationalism's appropriation of women and their bodies in it projects, and are especially useful in establishing feminisms that are not limited by American or European definitions and that defy homogenizing the experiences of postcolonial women. They affirm that there are many strategies for employing female agency, and that we must consider the particular circumstances (economic, cultural, racial, national, gender) that allow women of color to favor one strategy over another. Finally, U.S. Ethnic studies will inform my readings of texts that are, at their core, narratives of immigration to the United States and the seeking out of the American Dream. However, this dissertation suggests, the precarious position of immigrants in a nation whose ideals and dominating mythology are marred by a dark history of racism and exclusionary practices plays an important role in the establishment of an ethnic American identity in the United States.
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Aubeeluck, Ghaitree Harris Charles B. "Indian Americans as native informants transnationalism in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine, Jhumpa Lahiri's The namesake, and Kirin Narayan's Love, stars and all that /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1251816821&SrchMode=1&sid=2&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1178198344&clientId=43838.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.Title from title page screen, viewed on May 3, 2007. Dissertation Committee: Charles Harris (chair), Ronald Strickland, Wail Hassan. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 325-346) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Skrzeszewski, Aline. "Traversee des frontieres litteraires: La litterature-monde face aux malaises de nos societes." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1592133290443453.
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Winget, Lindsay. "What Is America Reading?: The Phenomena of Book Clubs and Literary Awards in Contemporary America." Thesis, Boston College, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/569.
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Thesis advisor: Judith WiltExperience as an English major, a bookseller, a publishing intern, and a reader has formed questions in my mind about why people read what they do. My interest is focused in two particular "categories" of literature that vie for readers' attention: book clubs and literary awards. Because my skills are in literary interpretation and not societal or industrial analysis, I explored this supposed dichotomy by reading and comparing books from each category. In the "book club" books (My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult and The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards), I found a remarkable familial structure at the core: a daughter with a medical condition; a mother struggling to cope emotionally; a father who distances himself through work and offers profound symbolism via a hobby; an older brother who rebels; an outside couple, professionally involved in the action and romantically involved in each other. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning books, Gilead by Marilynne Robinson and Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, stretch farther with voice, style, and imagery. I found them intellectually and personally more satisfying. In addition pursuing academic interests, I also grew to better understand the variety of purposes for which we read. Though I concluded that if all four novels were to be labeled, they should simply be named "middlebrow," I came to appreciate different writers' strengths — research, personal experience, mastery of language — even when they do not match my personal criteria as a reader
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2008
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: English
Discipline: College Honors Program
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Samee, Sabir Abdus. "Fluid Identities in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-1238.
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Cruz, Ana Gabriela Gomes da. "Scattered seeds: motherhood in foreign land in Jhumpa Lahiri's works." Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ECAP-9KPGST.
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In this thesis I examine the relationship between motherhood and diaspora,by analyzing how the works of the Indian-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri depict the representation of Indian immigrant mothers in the USA. The main goal is to investigate Lahiris novels The Namesake (2003) and The Lowland (2013), and her collections of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and Unaccustomed Earth (2008), having as a theoretical reference notions of diaspora studies and contemporary feminist literary theory. In order to do so, I discuss the relations between motherhood, pregnancy and foreignness, as well as the role of the immigrant mother at home and in the public space. Particularly, it interests me the manner in which the women characters in these texts negotiate with their children who live in-between the Indian and the American cultures through cultural aspects such as religious holidays, clothing, culinary habits and language. I argue that mother-daughter bonds in Lahiris fiction are different from the traditional mother-daughter relations,because they involve negotiations between different generations of immigrant women. Furthermore, I discuss how Lahiris women characters deal with widowhood in a foreign land and how sisterhood is represented as a response to the diasporic solitude these women often feel. In the final part,some conclusions are presented, demonstrating that Lahiris works can be seen both as feminist and diasporic texts, as some of the women characters in those fictional texts deal with motherhood whilst assimilating and negotiating with the host countrys culture.Nesta dissertação examino as relações entre maternidade e diáspora analisando como as obras da escritora americana de origem Indiana Jhumpa Lahiri mostram as representações de mães imigrantes indianas nos EUA. A meta principal é investigar os romances de Lahiri, The Namesake (2003) e The Lowland (2013), e seus livros de contos, Interpreter of Maladies (1999) e Unaccustomed Earth (2008), tendo como referência teórica as noções dos estudos da diáspora e a teoria literária feminista contemporânea. Discuto as relações entre maternidade, gravidez e estrangeiridade, bem como o papel da mãe imigrante no lar e no espaço público. Particularmente, me interessa o modo como os sujeitos femininos nestes textos negociam com seus filhos em meio às culturas indianas e americanas através de aspectos culturais como feriados religiosos, vestuário, culinária e linguagem. Argumento que os laços entre mãe e filha na ficção de Lahiri são diferentes das tradicionais relações materno-filiais porque elas envolvem negociações entre diferentes gerações de mulheres imigrantes. Além disso, discuto como as personagens femininas de Lahiri lidam com a viuvez numa terra estrangeira e como a irmandade é representada como uma resposta à solidão na diáspora que estas mulheres frequentemente sentem. Na parte final algumas conclusões são apresentadas, demonstrando como as obras de Lahiri podem ser vistas tanto como textos feministas quanto como textos diaspóricos, pois algumas das personagens femininas nestes textos ficcionais lidam com maternidade enquanto assimilam e negociam com a cultura do país anfitrião.
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Assadnassab, Afshin. "Displacement, an Unknown Freedom : Cultural Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-10268.
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Paudyal, Binod. "Re-imagining Transnational Identities in Norma Cantú's Canícula and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake." DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/709.
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This thesis examines Norma Cantú's Canícula and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake from the framework of transnationalism characterized by migration, transculturation, and hybridity. With the application of postcolonial theories, related to identity and space, it identifies the space between different cultural and national borders, as liminal space in which the immigrant characters diverge and intersect, ultimately constituting a form of hybrid and transnational identities. While most immigrant writers still explore the themes of complexities of lifestyles, cultural dislocation, and the conflicts of assimilation, and portray their characters as torn between respecting their family traditions and an Americanized way of life, my reading of these two immigrant writers goes beyond this conventional wisdom about the alienated postcolonial subject. Through a comparative analysis of the major themes in Canícula and The Namesake that center on issues of cultural and national border crossing, this thesis contends that Cantú and Lahiri attempt to construct transnational identities for immigrants, while locating and stabilizing them in the United States. Given the nature of the mobility of people and their cultures across nations, both writers deterritorialize the definite national and cultural identities suggesting that individuals cannot confine themselves within the narrow concept of national and cultural boundaries in this globalized world. A comparison between the transnational identity of the 1950s in Canícula and that of the 1970s through the twenty-first century in The Namesake demonstrates that identities are becoming more transnational and global due to the development of technologies, transportation, and global connections between people. In this regard, this thesis attempts to offer a re-vision of the contemporary United States not as a static and insular territory but a participant in transnational relations.
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Michaelin, M. Anyanwu Rose. "Diaspora and Cultural Hybridity : A Study of the First and Second Generation Immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-25494.
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Bran, Ramona-Alice [Verfasser], Walter [Akademischer Betreuer] Grünzweig, and Randi [Gutachter] Gunzenhäuser. "Immigration: ‘a lifelong pregnancy’? : An analysis of Jhumpa Lahiri’s fiction / Ramona-Alice Bran. Betreuer: Walter Grünzweig. Gutachter: Randi Gunzenhäuser." Dortmund : Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1101475706/34.
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Traister, Laura. "Immigration and Identity Translation: Characters in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake as Translators and Translated Beings." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/335.
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Bharati Mukherjee’s 1989 novel Jasmine and Jhumpa Lahiri’s 2003 novel The Namesake both feature immigrant protagonists, who experience name changes and identity transformations in the meeting space of Indian and American cultures. Using the theory of cultural translation to view translation as a metaphor for identity transformation, I argue that as these characters alter their identities to conform to cultural expectations, they act as both translators and translated texts. Although they struggle with the resistance of untranslatability via their inability to completely assimilate into American culture, Jasmine and Gogol ultimately gain the ability to bypass the limitations of a foreigner/native binary and enter a space of negotiation and growth.
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Chetty, Raj G. "Versions of America : reading American literature for identity and difference /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2006. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd1528.pdf.
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Salinas, Julieta. "Towards the building of a hybrid identity : an analysis of Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera and Jhumpa Lahiri's Mrs. Sen’s." Bachelor's thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11086/2286.
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Cultures are characterized by diversity, and such diversity is manifested in those spaces of encounter and conflict where there is an overlap of identities which try to coexist. In the case of immigrants, once they are settled, they need to adapt to the new world. They struggle to achieve a certain adjustment without losing their own traditions, those that make up their culture and therefore, their identity.
The categories of identity and culture have been the centre of attention and the object of study in several disciplines, and ever since the introduction of postcolonial theory, they have been consistently explored, deconstructed and reassembled. Defining postcolonialism is a difficult enterprise, since a range of conflicting viewpoints preclude any simple conceptualization. Nonetheless, it is a key concept in order to understand contemporary society and its practices. Scholars that study and are exponents of postcolonial theory are Gayatri Spivak, Edward Said, and Homi Bhabha, or as Young (1995) calls them, “the Holy Trinity of Postcolonial Theory” (as cited in Mellino, 2005, 36). Their studies serve as a landmark in the study of this theory; therefore, their ideas will contribute to dispel part of the complexity.
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Gupta, Malvika. "Systems theory and literary analysis: the second-generation indo-american fiction of jhumpa lahiri, rishi reddi and shauna singh baldwin." Thesis, 2011. http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/12345678/5821.
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Hsin-JuKuo and 郭欣茹. "Resisting Bodies in Diaspora: The Negotiation of Female Agency in the Works of Meena Alexander, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee and Monica Ali." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40698643556883769855.
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博士國立成功大學
外國語文學系碩博士班
98
This dissertation traces the contemporary immigrant narratives of the South Asian female writers Meena Alexander, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee, and Monica Ali, examining the ways in which the main female characters Sandhya Rosenblum, Jasmine, Mrs. Sen, Ashima Ganguli and Nazneen act as the epitome of the various ways in which immigrant identities of South Asian women are narratively resisted, performed, negotiated, and transgressed. The female protagonists display a revision of the tradition of immigrant literature by showing a fragmentary concept of identity. Neither persuaded by the assimilation models of cultural identity reformation nor adopting a complete rejection of foreign culture by adhering to a nostalgic melancholy, they advance a heteroglossic, dialogical concept of self and open up a spectrum-like space between the two extremes of immigrant narratives. Marked as dislocated and marginalized, the immigrant woman’s body signifies emergent diasporic subjectivities and identities, revealing the importance of the lived body as a vital facet of the migratory experience. This dissertation not only explores the ways in which immigrant female bodies serve as sites for the articulation of the traumatic displacement, but also attempts to study the transgressive ways in which the female bodies become the loci for resistance and ultimately for the construction of negotiable agency. I draw my academic inspiration from a wide range of theories as well as border studies in approaching these selected works. I read these immigrant women’s rebuttals to varied coercive ideologies, such as Indian patriarchy, nationalism and westernized assimilation, as situated in the intersecting space crisscrossed by postcolonialism, ethnic studies and transnational feminism, and have selectively referred to theoretical concepts drawn from each of these backgrounds. Such an interdisciplinary inquiry attempts to further problematize and amplify the complexity and heterogeneity of immigrant women’s predicaments in re-fashioning a subjectivity as well as agency. The first analytical chapter elaborates Mena Alexander’s powerful narratives to articulate how the marginalization as an ethnic Other proves to be overpowering for the diasporic woman Sandhya Rosenblum. In analyzing Manhattan Music, I explore the ways the female body is in relation to memory and migration. The second analytical chapter on Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Mrs. Sen’s” and The Namesake delves into the indivisible correlations between immigrant women’s gendered bodies and foodways, elucidating how the culinary praxis as ritualized everyday activities elaborate the lives of subjugated and marginalized female subjects in diasporic contexts. The third chapter on Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine aims to explore the duality of Jasmine’s bodily submissiveness and subversiveness which coexist within Jasmine’s mobility out of necessity and ineluctability. That is to say, in defining her mobility, Jasmine’s body serves as a contested site exposing others’ predominance over it in both racial and gender terms, while also performing a kind of subversive resistance from within this power hierarchy. In the fourth analytical chapter on Monica Ali’s Brick Lane, I explore the relations between migrant women’s bodies and gendered notions of home and nationalism, highlighting the relationship between immigrant women’s formation of agency and their roles as economic migrants. To use the concept of a spectrum as a metaphor for South Asian immigrant women’s aesthetics of existence, the female protagonists, Sandhya, Mrs. Sen, Ashima, Jasmine and Nazneen, who appear in the dissertation, represent a gradual development towards self-assertion.
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Tang, Ling-yao, and 湯玲瑤. "Immigrant Experience in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r4ahje.
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碩士國立中山大學
外國語文學系研究所
95
This thesis aims at exploring the consequences of migration in Jhumpa Lahirir’s novel The Namesake. Set in India and America, the story represents such immigrant experiences as the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and the tangled ties between generations. In addition to introduction and conclusion, the thesis consists of three chapters, devoted respectively to issues of nostalgia, identity, and cultural hybridity. Chapter One explores the way nostalgia affects the Ganguli family in their daily life, including such aspects as food, clothing, their circle of friends, festivals and celebrations. To analyze Indian immigrants’ longing for home and their attempts to retain homeland culture, I employ Svetlana Boym’s theory on nostalgia, wherein two kinds of nostalgia are distinguished: the restorative and the reflective. Chapter Two focuses on immigrants’ identity formation. The process of identity formation is associated with naming and generational problems. I adopt the Freudian theory of the Oedipus complex to explain the father-son conflicts: how the protagonist defies his father as well as the name given by him. Then, drawing upon Cathy Caruth’s concept of traumatic awakening, I trace how the protagonist reconciles with his father and reaches maturity. Chapter Three examines how immigrants come to invent a hybrid cultural identity. I employ Homi Bhabha’s concepts of in-bewteenness and the Third Space to point out the interplay of the Bengali heritage and the dominant American culture, which results in the phenomenon of a new, dynamic, and mixed culture. With globalization, borders and boundaries are constantly changing so that migration comes to be typical of human condition. In this sense, the immigrant experience stated in The Namesake foregrounds problems which might be encountered by all diasporas.
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Chen, Yi-Ju Ada, and 陳怡如. "Immigration Rhapsodies: Multiple Identities in Jhumpa Lahiri's Fiction." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51617491946298481884.
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碩士國立交通大學
外國語文學系外國文學與語言學碩士班
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This thesis suggests the use of the concept of “multiple identities” to describe the different identities that exist among members within an ethnic group. Diasporic individuals belonging to the same ethnic group (e.g. South Asian) may behave and respond to the world in strikingly different ways due to the various subjectivities they possess. Hall’s identity, Bhabha’s hybridity, Crenshaw’s intersectionality, and Lowe’s heterogeneity and multiplicity each encompass a specific facet of identity that I believe to be important to the construct of a complete diasporic ethnic identity. I bring together these perspectives on identity to create a more versatile method of imagining ethnic identity. This thesis will be divided into four chapters. The first is an introduction to author Jhumpa Lahiri, research motives, and a summarized statement concerning my main argument. The second will be a literary review of South Asian diasporic identity and the theories utilized within this thesis, in addition to a more detailed look into the concept of “multiple identities.” The third chapter will be a discussion on multiple identities and the formation of South Asian gender roles using examples from Lahiri’s works. Lastly, the concluding chapter will contain statements made concerning my previous investigations in addition to research limitations and possible future research applications. Overall, my findings back up my goal to prove that fixed definitions for a specific ethnic group are a myth and we need to highlight the differences within ethnic groups across generations. I hope to prove the concept of “multiple identities” as a theory worthy of note in diasporic literature.
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Gu, Lixing, and 顧力行. "Possibilities of New Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Short Stories." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5q3a24.
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碩士淡江大學
英文學系碩士班
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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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Wu, Chia-Fen, and 吳佳芬. "A Study of New Cosmopolitan Subjects in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Works." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/vfpd45.
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碩士國立中正大學
外國語文研究所
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This thesis argues that Jhumpa Lahiri’s works pose a new perspective on South Asian American immigrants by depicting them as new cosmopolitan subjects who could use their mobile traveling experience and photography narrative to reverse the restriction of traditional host-guest relationship, even transcending all differences of culture, religion, ethnicity, region, and class in the age of globalization. Chapter One will examine two stories in Interpreter of Maladies. I assume Twinkle in “This Blessed House” and the narrator in “The Third and Final Continent” as new cosmopolitan subjects with fluidity through theoretical insights of Elizabeth Jackson and Susan Koshy. I suggest that these two characters show their new sense of belonging as global sojourners by their travel experience and break through the ethnic and religious identity through the renewed host-guest relationship. Chapter Two will then focus on the identity transformation of two South Asian American females, Ashima and Moushumi, into new cosmopolites in The Namesake. Following Gita Rajan and Shailja Sharma, I contend that both characters anchor an alternative notion of home in order to renovate their identity as global citizens and deterritorialize the national and cultural identities. Chapter Three will inspect how “Hema and Kaushik,” the second part of Unaccustomed Earth, depicts the two protagonists as new cosmopolitan subjects through their unconstrained and fluid definition of home, photography and travel narrative. I argue that due to their experiences of the feeling of foreignness, the identity crisis, and the loss of self-orientation in the globalized world, they learn to negotiate and redefine their identity through the fluid nature of globalization. Keywords: Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, new cosmopolitanism, new cosmopolitan subject, identity, globalization
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Sears, Tommie Adrienne. "Racialization and the formation of identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies." 2006. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04262006-153827/unrestricted/etd.pdf.
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Fan, Ling-Lung, and 范玲瓏. "Negotiating in the Spatial Third: The Hospitality in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7g9s2c.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
英語學系
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As an Indian diaspora writer, Jhumpa Lahiri uses the writing device of perspective shiftings to accentuate communications among human beings from different cultural milieus in her short story collection Interpreter of Maladies. Besides, she especially explores female Indian diaspora’s mentality. Although many of the stories entail the host/hostess-guest encounter in the domain of home, the role of host/hostess and the guest remains fluid and reversible throughout their interrogations. I divide my thesis into three chapters. Chapter One introduces Derridean hospitality. Nevertheless, since host-guest hostility hinders the possibility of unconditional hospitality, I combine Irigaray’s reflection on the structure of hospitality. In order to push hospitable encounters to another level, she suggests the creation of a spatial third so as to potentiate mutual hospitality. Chapter Two underscores the analysis of first-and second-generation female Indian diaspora’s psychology in the process of expatriation. Such various mentalities contribute to different layers of hospitable Self-Other interrogations. As a result, in Chapter Three, I employ Derridean and Irigarayan hospitality to compare and contrast three layers of hospitality and the negotiating process from mutual hostility to the possibility of mutual sharing of life. In Conclusion, I argue that possibilities lie beneath the seeming impossibility of unconditional hospitality as a result of the establishment of the third space.
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Ayari, Mohamed. "Gender, globalization and beyond in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter of Maladies." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/22480.
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