Post-Partition Conflicts and Diasporic Loss in Amitav Ghosh and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Narratives

Abstract

Il mio articolo analizza The Shadow Lines di Amitav Ghosh e il racconto di Jhumpa Lahiri “When Mr. Pirzada came to dine” proponendo un’analisi di narrazioni che hanno meglio rappresentato gli antagonismi nell’India della post-Spartizione. La lunga ombra della Spartizione del 1947 ha lasciato un’eredità di spartizioni, in scala ridotta, che hanno continuato a segnare la recente storia indiana. Le dislocazioni diasporiche sono pertanto documentate in narrazioni che, focalizzandosi su ricordi di smarrimento e tensioni, hanno illuminato il potere etico e trasformativo della letteratura transnazionale.

DOI: 10.17456/SIMPLE-32

Bibliografia

Ashcroft, Bill. 2013. Border Free: Amitav Ghosh as a Child of Midnight. Ludmilla Volná, Nilanshu Agarwhal & Murari Prasad eds. Children of Midnight: Contemporary Indian Novel in English. Delhi: Pencraft International, 20-35.

Brah, Avtar. 1996. Cartographies of Diaspora. Contesting Identities. London: Routledge. Butalia, Urvashi. 2015. Partition: The Long Shadow. London: Penguin.

Cohen, Robin. 2008. Global Diaspora: An Introduction. London: Routledge. Ghosh, Amitav. 2005 [1988]. The Shadow Lines. Boston: Mariner Books.

Lahiri, Jhumpa. 1999. Interpreter of Maladies. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Mishra, Vijay. 2007. The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary. New York: Routledge.

Monaco, Angelo. 2015. Jhumpa Lahiri. The Interpreter of the New India Diaspora. Impossibilia, 9: 72-92 (accessed on 7 November 2015) http://www.impossibilia.org/jhumpa- lahiri-the-interpreter-of-the-new-indian-diaspora/.

Mistri, Rohinton. 1995. A Fine Balance. London: Faber & Faber.

Mohaiemen, Naeem. 2008. Accelerated Media and the 1971 Genocide in Bangladesh. Economic & Political Weekly, 26 January (accessed on 11 November 2015) http://www.jstor.org/stable/40277078?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents.

Mohaiemen, Naeem. 2011. Flying Blind: Waiting for a Real Reckoning on 1971. Economic & Political Weekly, 3 September (accessed on 20 November 2015) http://blog.creative- capital.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Naeem_Mohaiemen_Flying_Blind.pdf.

Roy, Anjali G. & Nandi Bhatia. 2008. Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement and Resettlement. New Delhi: Person Longman.

Rushdie, Salman. 1981. Midnight’s Children. London: Picador. Sidwha, Bapsi. 1988. Ice Candy Man. London: Penguin.