TY - JOUR
T1 - A language of her own
T2 - willful displacement and nomadic subjectivity in Jhumpa Lahiri
AU - Walker, Rebecca Mary
PY - 2021/3/1
Y1 - 2021/3/1
N2 - In Other Words (2016) is the first of Jhumpa Lahiri’s writings to be published in Italian, charting the journey to self-expression enabled by her twenty-year relationship with this foreign language.Tracing Lahiri’s literary production, this article argues that the autobiographical prose of In Other Words is facilitated by a series of “willful” displacements, reworking and revising the notion of displacement, which is a pervasive theme of Lahiri’s earlier work. Moreover, it is precisely by means of these self-conscious geographical, bodily, linguistic, and literary dislocations that Lahiri articulates a kind of shifting or nomadic subjectivity, where otherness and multiplicity are re-privileged as sources of creative energy and self-affirmation.
AB - In Other Words (2016) is the first of Jhumpa Lahiri’s writings to be published in Italian, charting the journey to self-expression enabled by her twenty-year relationship with this foreign language.Tracing Lahiri’s literary production, this article argues that the autobiographical prose of In Other Words is facilitated by a series of “willful” displacements, reworking and revising the notion of displacement, which is a pervasive theme of Lahiri’s earlier work. Moreover, it is precisely by means of these self-conscious geographical, bodily, linguistic, and literary dislocations that Lahiri articulates a kind of shifting or nomadic subjectivity, where otherness and multiplicity are re-privileged as sources of creative energy and self-affirmation.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85134082636
U2 - 10.1093/cww/vpab013
DO - 10.1093/cww/vpab013
M3 - Article
SN - 1754-1476
VL - 15
SP - 105
EP - 122
JO - Contemporary Women's Writing
JF - Contemporary Women's Writing
IS - 1
ER -