Author(s): Shirley de Souza Gomes Carreira
Journal: Revista e-scrita : Revista do Curso de Letras da UNIABEU
ISSN 2177-6288
Volume: 1;
Issue: 3;
Start page: 87;
Date: 2010;
Original page
Keywords: Jhumpa Lahiri | migrant writer | memory | forgetting
ABSTRACT
This paper aims at analysis of the short story “Unaccustomed Earth”, by Jhumpa Lahiri, in order to show the way the dialectic relationship between memory and forgetting intertwines with the issue of the migrant’s cultural identity.
Journal: Revista e-scrita : Revista do Curso de Letras da UNIABEU
ISSN 2177-6288
Volume: 1;
Issue: 3;
Start page: 87;
Date: 2010;
Original page
Keywords: Jhumpa Lahiri | migrant writer | memory | forgetting
ABSTRACT
This paper aims at analysis of the short story “Unaccustomed Earth”, by Jhumpa Lahiri, in order to show the way the dialectic relationship between memory and forgetting intertwines with the issue of the migrant’s cultural identity.
