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This paper explores the way Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies renders everday as a capacious force field in which we can investigate the intersection of individuals' emotional conundrums and socio-structural crises and the mutual infiltration of the private and the public. While moving across a variety of national boundaries and constantly negotiating cultural and emotional belongings, the characters in Lahiri's literary world inhabit the unaccustomed earth and feel the unhomely. Building on Susan Koshy's formulation of minor cosmopolitanism, this paper argues for distinctive forms of epistemology that the affective aspects of exorbitant citizenship enables by inscribing abnormality, non-assimilation, and disruptions in cross-cultural and trans-national settings. Analyzing the three short stories, “Interpreter of Maladies,” “Sexy,” and “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine,” I argue that affective reciprocity between the marginalized bespeaks the kind of situation that allows an alternative re-figuration of global intimacy and belonging. In these stories, the unexpected connection with the cultural others creates a series of global intimacy based on contingency and discontinuity and a variety of ways of contacting and worlding the other culture and the world itself.

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저자

• 김정하 [ Jungha Kim | 연세대 ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  미국소설 [마크 트웨인 리뷰]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1738-5784

• 수록기간

  1991~2020

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 843 DDC 813