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Niemożliwy kanon Jhumpy Lahiri
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Impossible Canon

Author(s): Patrycja Austin
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: literary theory; literary canon; postcolonial cultures; ethnicity; Jhumpa Lahiri

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at examining the canonical categorization of Jhumpa Lahiri’s works, the trajectory of which makes such a categorization difficult if not impossible to establish. The author also focuses on the positive and negative aspects of the emergence of the ethnic canon in the United States, especially on the political and economic facets of literaryproduction. The analysis begins with the theories by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, EdwardSaid, and Homi Bhabha, and proceeds to a more detailed examination of the ethnic canonby David Palumbo-Liu and Graham Huggan.

  • Issue Year: 2/2017
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 89-98
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish