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标题：ASPECTS OF IMMIGRATION AND DIASPORIC SENSIBILITY IN KIRAN DESAI’S THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS
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作者：Nazneen Khan ; Ravi Jauhari
期刊名称：Lapis Lazuli : an International Literary Journal
电子版ISSN：2249-4529
出版年度：2011
卷号：1
期号：1
出版社：Pinter Society of India
摘要：Kiran Desai, the winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize, 2006, for her second novel The Inheritance of Loss (2006) created literary history by becoming the youngest ever woman to win the prestigious prize at the age of thirty-five. In The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai treats with tremendous insight, sensitivity, and often piercing irony, topical issues related to politics and terrorism as well as immigration, globalization, multiculturalism, colonial neurosis, identity-formation and subjectivity, and the nationalist, gender, cultural, ethnic and class differences that inform these processes. From a supremely funny and engaging novel in her joyous debut, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998), Kiran Desai moved on to write The Inheritance of Loss where the prevailing mood is one of implacable bitterness and despair