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The present time is referred to as an era of globalization or a transnational age in which people are able to cross borders freely. In this global era, when the borders of nationality, ethnicity, ideology, and gender are pulled down, there is a sharp rise in the number of immigrants who leave their home countries due to economic, political, or social reasons. As a result, immigrants, ranging from contract laborers to cosmopolitan elites, move over the borders, form diasporic communities, and create new, hybrid cultures. The positive and optimistic viewpoints on the globalization, however, faced a strong backlash, especially in the beginning of the twenty-first century. Ironically, loud assertions of nationalism are being heard in the form of national liberation wars, more divisions of territories, and drawings of new national boundaries even in this global era. Furthermore, the polarization of society is getting worse, causing new forms of social discrimination, and post-colonial countries are being placed under even worse colonial dominance than before. Some writers have started to say that now is the time for skeptical and critical voices to be raised, as our global future seems to be in peril. Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss (2006) sheds new light on globalization, which mainstream western ideology has deemed beneficial, and reflects the problems of this global age the way a school textbook might. The national liberation movement of the Nepalese Gorkhas, which broke out in India in the mid-1980s, is used as a reference point in the novel. Desai starts to analyze the chronic racial discrimination, class conflicts, and territorial disputes which plague Kalimpong. Desai does not only focus on the social issues that accompany the territorial dispute, but also depicts the sad human beings who inherit feelings of loss as their innate destiny.

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저자

• 원유경 [ Won, Yoo-Kyeong | 세명대학교 ]

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간행물

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [The Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1598-3293

• 수록기간

  1968~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 810