Comparative Study of Transnational Identity of Migrated Asian Women in JhumpaLahiri and MehrnooshMazarie'sFictions through Looking Lenz of HomiBhabha

Subject Areas : Persian Language and Literature

Omid Varzande ¹ (Assistant professor, English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran)
Seyed Reza Ebrahimi ² (Member of Academic Staff, English Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj, Iran.)

Received: 2012-03-11 Accepted : 2012-06-06 Published : 2012-08-22

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Abstract :

National identity plays such the most crucial role in forming plot and themes in an author's mind that characters in his story sometimes find the same identity. Migration in modern time is one of the ways which distant people from their national identity and culture and leaves them disserted in "liminal" space. Living in liminal space encounters migrated people with the most terrible challenge of their lives which coping with cultural shock. Asian people and specially women are facing with more serious challenge in this way, so some female authors, like JhumpaLahiri and MehrnooshMazarie, have tried to show the way women encounter with this challenge. This paper investigating challenging national identity of migrated oriental woman is postcolonial comparative study of abovementioned female authors' fictions. Migrated Asian women living at liminal space at west have to cope with accepting a new identity called transnational identity which is modern man's activity to forget his/her national identity and cultural roots and cope with new space's foreign culture. This paper aims at investigating characters and personal traits at both  authors'  works  to  study  the  way  transnational  identity  forms  in Iranian and Indian women living at west. The paper aims at studying the way  migrated  Asian  women  get  influence  by  receiving  transnational         identity. Also, using HomiBhabha postcolonial theories to study authors' fictions can show the true image of migrated Asian women at west. Since the Asian women with transnational identity are new women with new abilities and this image which need to be studied and presented, the paper aims at studying the new image of migrated Asian women by means they try to keep on their national culture and identity and live in borders of cultural spaces of multicultural society.