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Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Neo-cosmopolitan Fiction
- Author(s):
- Binod Paudyal (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, LLC Asian American, LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic, TC Race and Ethnicity Studies
- Subject(s):
- American literature
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- american literature, asian american, contemporary fiction, cosmopolitanism, Literary canon
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6GS3J
- Abstract:
- This essay offers a critical reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland as a “neo-cosmopolitan fiction,” one which is invested in imagining a transnational and global community, in order to initiate a new analytical framework for South Asian diasporic literature. I argue that this critical framework not only challenges the notion of literary canons and classifications which consolidate national identity, but also offers a critical recognition of the South Asian diaspora in the United States by re-envisioning an American identity that is responsive to an age of migration, mobility, and transnational connections.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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