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

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.

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