The Construction of Hybrid Identities and Homelands in Jumpa Lahiri’s “Once in a Lifetime” and Uva de Aragon’s Memoria del Silencio

Authors

  • Marianela Mora Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Keywords:

culture, diaspora, hybrid homes, identity, postcolonialism

Abstract

In “Once in a Lifetime” (2009) written by Jhumpa Lahiri and Memoria del Silencio (2002) by Uva de Aragón, we are introduced to the life stories of two young girls as members of the Bengal and the Cuban diasporas since both girls migrate, due to different reasons, to the U.S.A. From the postcolonial perspective proposed by Madan Sarup in Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World (1996) I will analyze the basic and intimate sphere of the concept of “home” and how this concept turns into a hybrid space where different and, sometimes, opposed values, habits and customs coexist and, at the same time, influence and shape the subjectivities that emerge in those places

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Author Biography

Marianela Mora, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Es Licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Inglesas, título otorgado por la Facultad de Lenguas, UNC. Es co-autora del capítulo, “Mundos Distópicos: Hacia la Era de lo Postnatural” en Ecocrítica, “Crítica Verde”. La naturaleza y el medioambiente en el discurso cultural anglófono, editado por Mirian Carballo y María Elena Aguirre, y autora de “The Outcast of Outcasts: The Discourse and Representations of Madness in Alias Grace de Margaret Atwood and Beloved de Toni Morrison” en la Revista Argentina de Estudios Canadienses.

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Published

2015-12-01

How to Cite

Mora, M. (2015). The Construction of Hybrid Identities and Homelands in Jumpa Lahiri’s “Once in a Lifetime” and Uva de Aragon’s Memoria del Silencio. Revista De Culturas Y Literaturas Comparadas, 5. Retrieved from https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/CultyLit/article/view/13226