This paper focuses on photography as a highly relevant medium for diaspora studies. It analyses short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri and shows how the author uses ekphrastically the frozenness of the photographic picture in depicting the static memory of the diasporics' lost homeland in the past.

• “Unaccustomed Earth: Diaspora on the Developing Reel "

BATTISTI, Chiara
2017-01-01

Abstract

This paper focuses on photography as a highly relevant medium for diaspora studies. It analyses short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri and shows how the author uses ekphrastically the frozenness of the photographic picture in depicting the static memory of the diasporics' lost homeland in the past.
2017
9783110485417
Diaspora, Literature, Unaccustomed Earth
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