%0 Journal Article
%T Peopling an Unaccustomed Earth with a New Generation: Jhumpa Lahiri¡¯s Supreme Fictional Journey into Human Conditions
%A Neela Bhattacharya SAXENA
%J Argument : Biannual Philosophical Journal
%D 2012
%I Pedagogical University of Cracow
%X Using a theoretical framework derived from my ongoing engagement with what I havecalled a ¡®Gynocentric matrix¡¯ of Indic sensibility, along with James Hillman¡¯s polytheisticpsychology and Wallace Stevens¡¯ notion of a Supreme Fiction, this paper offers a readingof Jhumpa Lahiri¡¯s (b. 1967) short stories beyond postcolonial criticism. Stemming froma depth consciousness where life, living and death, joy, indifference and sorrow, generation, de/re-generation, and transformation are intricately intertwined, Lahiri¡¯s fictionalmultiverse is peopled by a new generation of characters who speak to the soul of the reader; in the process, she sculpts a reality that does not tolerate any homogenizing impulse in the name of an abstract unity.
%K Bengali literature
%K diasporic writing' feminism
%K generation
%K Gynocentric matrix
%K Jhumpa Lahiri
%K postcolonial studies
%U http://argumentwp.vipserv.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/pdfv2n1/argument-3-08-Saxena.pdf