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T1 Believe Me, Do not Believe Me: Jhumpa Lahiri and the Royal Family of Oudh
T2 Creédme, no me creáis: Jhumpa Lahiri y la familia real de Oudh
A1 Moreno-Álvarez, Alejandra
K1 partición
K1 trauma
K1 literatura
K1 periodismo
AB In Interpreter of Maladies (1999) Jhumpa Lahiri gives voice to Boori Ma, a durwan (door-keeper) who chronicles about the easier times she enjoyed before deportation to Kolkata(previously known as Calcutta, India) after Partition of 1947. Lahiri plays with the wordreal implying that Boori Ma’s stories could be deciphered as real or not. Boori Ma’s fictitiouslife resembles the one of the Royal Family of Oudh, which Lahiri seems to be inspired by.Foreign correspondents (Kaufman, 1981; Miles, 1985; Barry, 2019) did not question theveracity of this family’s life story. In the present article, the two stories are compared: a liter-ary and a real one. It is our intention to prove that traumatic experiences, such as Partition,cause subjects to imagine an alternative life; strategy which is unconsciously activated to healtrauma (LaCapra, 1999; Mookerjea-Leonard, 2017). The latter is what western journalistsand readers failed to acknowledge.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2021
FD 2021
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 27-nov-2024