SHAKY GROUND AND NEW TERRITORIALITIES INBRICK LANEBY MONICA ALI ANDTHE NAMESAKEBY JHUMPA LAHIRI

Françoise Král

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Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies Diaspora, migration, transnational identity Comparative and World Literature

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In this article I propose to analyse the way Brick Lane and The Namesake envisage the consequences of the new world geography on the psyche of migrants. Interestingly these two novels of the Indian diaspora envisage immigration as empowering, but they also pinpoint the difficulties of the interstitial self of the immigrant: its unsettling in‐betweenness verging on schizophrenia and what Julia Kristeva has termed “the silence of the polyglot” (Strangers to Ourselves, New York: Columbia UP, 1991: 16).

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