The famous Indian-American female writer Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies describes the diaspora’s emotional experiences in the heterogeneous space.For three diaspora women in the novel,different characterist...The famous Indian-American female writer Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies describes the diaspora’s emotional experiences in the heterogeneous space.For three diaspora women in the novel,different characteristics are manifested for their formation of the identities due to their different life experiences:Boori Ma is a“voiceless”other;Mrs.Sen is a brave identity reconstructor;and Twinkle becomes a representative of“hybrid”identity.Compared with the former,the latter’s identity establishment presents a more positive state,conveying Jhumpa Lahiri’s longing for diaspora women to build a positive cultural female identity,and her expectation of constructing a spiritual home of multi-cultural integration.展开更多
The depiction of food and foodways abounds in Indian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize winning debut Interpreter of Maladies,creating an enticing element to arrest readers’attention.In this collection o...The depiction of food and foodways abounds in Indian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize winning debut Interpreter of Maladies,creating an enticing element to arrest readers’attention.In this collection of short stories,Lahiri uses food as a means to navigate alienation and affection,as a conduit to recapture and relive old memories,and as a vehicle to articulate cultural construction of a new identity.Her manoeuvre of culinary writing is so adept that each item of food constitutes a situation to signal deep-hidden meaning beneath its surface information.Thus food becomes signs or metaphors of overseas Indian diasporic experience.展开更多
The motif of the knight is frequently used in medieval art; it has made a surprising comeback in the 19th century through artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites or the Viennese artists at the end of the 19th and the beg...The motif of the knight is frequently used in medieval art; it has made a surprising comeback in the 19th century through artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites or the Viennese artists at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Gustav Klimt interprets this motif in a very personal manner, which throws a totally different light on the status of the knight than traditional interpretations. The aim of this paper is to indicate and analyze the very features that make Klimt＇s knight different from that established through the historic, literary, and artistic canons and reveal it as closer to Nietzsche＇s modern man--afflicted by the malady that the philosopher diagnoses and whose symptoms he describes as follows： A weakened personality, and the absence of a strong will, associated with the specific age and culture.展开更多
An undeniable fact is that China practices macro-control more frequently than countries with a developed market economy. Since the country began to adopt the policy of reform and opening up in 1978, the Central Govern...An undeniable fact is that China practices macro-control more frequently than countries with a developed market economy. Since the country began to adopt the policy of reform and opening up in 1978, the Central Government has launched five adjustments to cool down the economy. Professor Li Yiping at the School of Economics, the Renmin University of China, attributes the frequent control practices to the immature economic system.展开更多
文摘The famous Indian-American female writer Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies describes the diaspora’s emotional experiences in the heterogeneous space.For three diaspora women in the novel,different characteristics are manifested for their formation of the identities due to their different life experiences:Boori Ma is a“voiceless”other;Mrs.Sen is a brave identity reconstructor;and Twinkle becomes a representative of“hybrid”identity.Compared with the former,the latter’s identity establishment presents a more positive state,conveying Jhumpa Lahiri’s longing for diaspora women to build a positive cultural female identity,and her expectation of constructing a spiritual home of multi-cultural integration.
文摘The depiction of food and foodways abounds in Indian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize winning debut Interpreter of Maladies,creating an enticing element to arrest readers’attention.In this collection of short stories,Lahiri uses food as a means to navigate alienation and affection,as a conduit to recapture and relive old memories,and as a vehicle to articulate cultural construction of a new identity.Her manoeuvre of culinary writing is so adept that each item of food constitutes a situation to signal deep-hidden meaning beneath its surface information.Thus food becomes signs or metaphors of overseas Indian diasporic experience.
文摘The motif of the knight is frequently used in medieval art; it has made a surprising comeback in the 19th century through artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites or the Viennese artists at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Gustav Klimt interprets this motif in a very personal manner, which throws a totally different light on the status of the knight than traditional interpretations. The aim of this paper is to indicate and analyze the very features that make Klimt＇s knight different from that established through the historic, literary, and artistic canons and reveal it as closer to Nietzsche＇s modern man--afflicted by the malady that the philosopher diagnoses and whose symptoms he describes as follows： A weakened personality, and the absence of a strong will, associated with the specific age and culture.
文摘An undeniable fact is that China practices macro-control more frequently than countries with a developed market economy. Since the country began to adopt the policy of reform and opening up in 1978, the Central Government has launched five adjustments to cool down the economy. Professor Li Yiping at the School of Economics, the Renmin University of China, attributes the frequent control practices to the immature economic system.
