"Solid Knowledge" and Contradictions in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss

被引：6

作者：

Spielman, David Wallace ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA

来源：

CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION | 2010年 / 51卷 / 01期

关键词：

Kiran Desai; The Inheritance of Loss; postcolonial fiction; immigrant; identity;

D O I：

10.1080/00111610903249872

中图分类号：

I [文学];

学科分类号：

05 ;

摘要：

This essay argues that Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss shows us a radical postcolonial subjectivity in which flexibility, assimilation, and multiculturalism are preferable to maintaining difference. The characters who cling to "solid knowledge" come to bad ends, while those more comfortable with cultural contradictions tend to fare better.

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