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Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Isolation;connection;community;autonomy;identity;relationship;American literature;short stories;Z.Z. Packer;Jhumpa Lahiri;Mary Gaitskill;Drinking Coffee Elsewhere;Interpreter of Maladies;Because They Wanted to;American women writers;relational psychoanalysis
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Isolation And Community In Short Story Collections By Z.Z. Packer, Jhumpa Lahiri, And Mary Gaitskill, Katy A. Howe
Isolation And Community In Short Story Collections By Z.Z. Packer, Jhumpa Lahiri, And Mary Gaitskill, Katy A. Howe
Master's Theses, Dissertations, Graduate Research and Major Papers Overview
Looking at short story collections by Z.Z. Packer, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Mary Gaitskill, this work explores the protagonists' development of identity in relation to others. Using relational psychoanalysis as a theoretical base, this thesis probes the tension between involvement in community and maintaining individuality.