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标题：Bewildered Relations in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies
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作者：Priyanka Sharma
期刊名称：Lapis Lazuli : an International Literary Journal
电子版ISSN：2249-4529
出版年度：2012
卷号：2
期号：2
出版社：Pinter Society of India
摘要：Jhumpa Lahiri.s Interpreter of Maladies depicts the displaced immigrant protagonists and second-generation Indian-American characters searching for a way to fit into a community. The book is a collection of nine short stories concerning with the diasporic postcolonial situation of the lives of Indians and Indian-Americans whose hyphenated Indian identity has let them to be caught between the Indian- American traditions. It underlines the centrality of cultural translation in the process of possessing and re-possessing the past and the present both chronological and spatial in a meaningful way. It also outlines a strategy of diasporic as well as gendered resistance towards existing colonial and patriarchal hierarchies in the post-colonial through the effort of imagination