The Rhetoric of Deliberation and the Space of the Hyphen: Identity Politics of the Indian Women Diaspora in the Fictions of Jhumpa Lahiri

Chakraborty, Nabanita

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“…It facilitates social learning to tackle various problems in the community (Lumosi, Pahl-Wostl, and Scholz 2020). Deliberation even could be done to conceive new identities within a community (Chakraborty 2018).…”

Section: Consequences Of Identity Negotiation On Attitudes To the Dyn...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Change-based Identity Negotiation: Case of “Cina Benteng” and Indigenous Community in Kalipasir Tangerang, Banten

Putri

Malik

Putri

et al. 2022

JSW (Jurnal Sosiol. Walisongo)

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Chinese and indigenous people in Kalipasir have lived together for centuries. Although they experienced various social changes due to changes in spatial planning, job opportunities, and cultural recognition, they still lives in harmony by negotiating its identity. Applying qualitative research this study will reveal: what factors drive the negotiation of the identity of the people of Kampung Kalipasir? How did the identity negotiations in Kalipasir Village take place? and what impact does this identity negotiation have on people's attitudes to social change? This study reveals that identity negotiations are driven by factors of cultural diversity, economic equality, and the presence of a common enemy. The form of identity negotiation that occurs is manifested in three behaviors, namely tolerance, prioritizing togetherness, and maintaining tradition. The consequences of this identity negotiation led to a multicultural attitude, prioritizing deliberation, and rejecting exclusivity. This finding shows that a multicultural society can develop in response to social change without having to become a hybrid society by negotiating a tolerant identity and building togetherness while still maintaining traditional values.

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Section: Consequences Of Identity Negotiation On Attitudes To the Dyn...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Change-based Identity Negotiation: Case of “Cina Benteng” and Indigenous Community in Kalipasir Tangerang, Banten

Putri

Malik

Putri

et al. 2022

JSW (Jurnal Sosiol. Walisongo)

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“…Negotiating the old and new, distant and close, familiar and unfamiliar marks the journey of migration and displacement. The migratory journey of every Indian woman in the United States is unique in its challenges and advantages (Chakraborty, 2018; Vijaya & Biswas, 2017). Chandra Mohanty (1984) challenges the generalization of women of color as “‘powerless’, ‘exploited’, and ‘sexually harassed,’” (p. 338) in Western feminist discourse.…”

Section: Geo-familial Displacementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many scholars write about the implicit expectation imposed on Indian immigrant women to be safe keepers of cultural continuity (Chakraborty, 2018; Pande, 2018). It is not surprising that Indian immigrant women—irrespective of their geographical origins—carry “cultural baggage” of “heterogeneous, complex, fluid and dynamic set of values and practices that are rooted in centuries old civilizational consciousness” (Pande, 2018, p. 7).…”

Section: Geo-familial Displacementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As an Indian national permanently living in the United States, but one who identifies herself as Indian American by virtue of being married to a second-generation Indian American, and mothering third-generation Indian Americans, the hyphen is central to my life and identity. For Nabanita Chakraborty (2018), the hyphen "metaphorically signifies an in-between space occupied by a woman migrant, a space of memory, deliberation and articulation. In other words, it is the site of confluence between the subjective memories and the desires of the woman" (p. 28).…”

Section: Negotiating Displacement: Finding My Ontological Rootsmentioning

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Maher as the Location of Origin: Examining Home and Displacement in Geo-Familial, Academic, and Spiritual Contexts

Thatte

2021

Qualitative Inquiry

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In this article, I examine the construct of parental home or maher in my native language Marathi—as a social, emotional, cultural, spiritual, physical, and lived construct. Maher informs my struggle to comprehend the construct of home and its relationship to displacement, loss of familiarity, nostalgia, and the liminal. I juxtapose my experiences of being a newly married woman of Indian origin in the United States, with my experiences of being a new graduate student in a reputed North American university—both simultaneous life events. This article is an autoethnographical reflection on my negotiation of my marital and academic landscapes where I found my identity and ontological orientations challenged. The borderlands that resulted from geo-familial displacement and ontological displacement in academia intersected to create vantage points and liminal spaces that allowed me to explore, re-orient, and assert my ontological roots that are informed by Indian philosophy—specifically, the Advaita Vedanta approach. This article explores the power of art as research and the process of art-making as a process synchronous to researching to explore identity in the making.

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Reimagining spatiality in South Asian diasporic literature: a Lefebvrian reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland

Qiuchen,

Pourya Asl,

Pakri

2023

Journal for Cultural Research

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The Rhetoric of Deliberation and the Space of the Hyphen: Identity Politics of the Indian Women Diaspora in the Fictions of Jhumpa Lahiri

Cited by 4 publications

References 2 publications

Social Change-based Identity Negotiation: Case of “Cina Benteng” and Indigenous Community in Kalipasir Tangerang, Banten

Social Change-based Identity Negotiation: Case of “Cina Benteng” and Indigenous Community in Kalipasir Tangerang, Banten

Maher as the Location of Origin: Examining Home and Displacement in Geo-Familial, Academic, and Spiritual Contexts

Reimagining spatiality in South Asian diasporic literature: a Lefebvrian reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland

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