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Transformation of functional family and reconstruction of home in Jhumpa Lahiri’s the Lowland by Pour, Sharareh Rafiei

“…Jhumpa Lahiri, an American writer with South Asian origin, has continued writing about immigrant families and their attempt to construct home in her latest novel The Lowland shortlisted for 2013 Man Booker Prize. Lahiri can be uniquely categorized among the immigrant writers dealing with “imaginary homeland.” …”
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The repressed trauma of a devoted English butler in The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro by Yusoff, Siti Sarah, Bahar, Ida Baizura

“…Kazuo Ishiguro (b. 1954) is a Japanese diasporic writer residing in Britain and is a master of storytelling through his use of the melancholic and nostalgic elements to embody the fragmented self. In his 1989 Booker Prize winning novel, The remains of the day, Ishiguro portrays the main character, a butler named Stevens, who works under an aristocrat whom he highly respects which he later finds out had supported the Nazis during World War Two. …”
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