Character`s Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri`s Writing: a Transcultural Paradigm

Abstract

The monograph investigates Asian-American identity in a transcultural discourse, in particular in Jhumpa Lahiri`s writing; the author`s works created within the limits of a transcultural paradigm which helps to trace features` formation of identity of the modern Asian-American character are considered; the reception peculiarities of Lahiri`s writing in literary-critical thought are determined, as well as the features of the Asian component and the transcultural consciousness of immigrant characters, which forms the basis of the author`s writing. Recommended for literary critics, philologists, culturologists, PhD doctorants, postgraduate students, lecturers, students, whose research interests are Asian-American literature.