مقایسه تطبیقی شکل گیری هویت تراملی زن شرقی مهاجر در آثار جومپا لاهیری و مهرنوش مزارعی از دیدگاه هومی بابا

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

Keywords: National Identity, Transnational identity, HomiBhabha, Postcolonial study, JhumpaLahiri, MehrnooshMazarie,

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.