Sep 2026· International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research· Vol 8· 0 citations· 11 references
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Jhumpa Lahiri’s literary oeuvre has frequently been examined through the frameworks of diaspora, cultural identity, migration, hybridity, and displacement. However, her later linguistic transition from English to Italian offers a distinctive dimension through which her understanding of belonging and identity can be reconsidered. This qualitative research paper examines the relationship between language, displacement, and selfhood in Lahiri’s In Other Words (In altre parole, 2016) and Whereabouts (Dove mi trovo, 2018). Rather than treating language merely as a medium of literary expression, the study conceptualizes language as a space in which identity is negotiated and reconstructed. Through qualitative textual analysis, the paper investigates how Lahiri’s movement into Italian produces experiences of estrangement, vulnerability, freedom, and renewed self-discovery.
This paper examines Fahmīdah Riyāẓ’s collection of Urdu poems titled
Tum Kabīr
as a (meta-)archive that maps the affective, semiotic, and mnemonic landscapes of her dialogic poetic imagination. Through a sustained exploration of the implications of dialogism, it analyzes the interplay among different voices, text...
Migration has profoundly shaped Filipino social and cultural life, yet its consequences on identity and cultural continuity remain underexplored in Philippine regional literary scholarship. While postcolonial discussions often interpret Homi K. Bhabha’s concepts of hybridity and the Third Space as productive sites of c...
Marcwani P. Pal-ing· International Journal of Res...· 0 citations
This study examines the relationship between linguistic hybridity and female identity in Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers and Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words. Although both works have received considerable critical attention for their treatment of multilingualism, translation, migration, and...
Meena Abdulsalam Mosa الباحث· مجلة الباحث· 0 citations
Contemporary migration narratives frequently unsettle the assumption that movement from one country to another produces a simple transition from one stable identity to another. Migration may alter family relations, racial classification, language, cultural practice, and the meaning of home. This article examines these...
Yuvasree P· Asian Journal of Research Sc...· 0 citations
This article explores the thematic and symbolic meaning of naming in two literary works that explore the intricacies of cultural identity, intergenerational conflict, and diaspora: Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake and Ariel Sabar's My Father's Paradise. In both works, names function not merely as identifiers, but as dynam...
Dilbireen A. Ali, Gharbi M. Mustafa· Koya University Journal of H...· 0 citations
In a fluid sociological and cultural landscape, where the dimensions of geography and time are in a permanent state of flux, the destabilisation of personal identity has become a critical concern. The theme of identity crises in literature has been widely studied, but there is little research on the psychological crise...
