Mapping the Trajectory of Transculturality in Language Neighbourhood and Memory A Detailed Analysis of the Selected Works of Jhumpa Lahiri and JR

Abstract

The transcultural setting is dynamic and ever-evolving. It is molded by other people s knowledge and adaptation, leading to an endless cycle of change. It creates opportunities to close gaps, hyphenated gaps, hybrid experiences, multiple identities, and a new combination of identification and connection. It serves as a center for culture. The proposed theories must nonetheless appreciate the new without rejecting or altering old values or memories. They seek to transform national, cultural, and emotional differences into veneration, absorption, and adaptation. Transcultural studies aim to broaden one s perspective and explore circumstances and identities outside of one s immediate environment. newlineThis thesis is structured into five chapters: the first being titled Introduction: Foundations of Transculturality, Photographs and Transcultural Memory, where the creative manifestation of transculturality through language by writers is discussed. A detailed analysis of photographs used from history to discern narratives is widely elaborated, and the conceptualization of cultural memory to transcultural memory is deliberated in this chapter. newlineThe second chapter, titled Creative Transpatriation and Writing: Linguistic Space to Pertain a Sense of Identification, intends to increase a profound understanding of how the Indian-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri has procured a transcultural orientation and identity as a result of her cultural border crossings and transnational experiences by analysing her work In Other Words, where writing in a language foreign to her was used as a means to express herself creatively. It will be examined by applying the critical notion of Arianna Dagnino on creative fiction produced by transpatriation. This chapter will explore the distinctive individuality and cultural metamorphoses that occur due to moving physically, mentally, or imaginatively across geographical boundaries. Through the development of a transcultural lens, individuals, especially writers, can embrace novel approaches..