Razieh Alirezaei

THE BRUTAL COST OF CONVERSIONS: FEMALE AUTONOMY AND SELF-FORMATION IN JHUMPA LAHIRI’S THE LOWLAND

Diasporic literary criticism has long privileged themes of loss, dislocation, and fractured identity. Less attended to, however, is how migration could function as a productive space of self-transformation and reconstruction of the migrant’s subjectivity. Drawing on the Foucauldian notions of “power relations” and “tec...