چکیده

The present study is a dialectical exploration of ‘empathy’ in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Third and Final Continent”, by concentrating on the translational significance this notion has in the process of subject formation. The central questions of this research are: What are the translational purposes that empathy serve once it is reworked through Lahiri’s short narrative? And what are the ways in which that a literary narrative with an empathetic capacity enables distant bodies to affectively emerge as intelligible subjects? To answer these questions, this paper primarily examines the ways in which empathy is required to function in order for a literary narrative to have an affective capacity. With regards to this, it is further illustrated that by availing herself of certain narrative techniques, Lahiri manages to immersively eliminate the distance that initially prevented her characters from being subject to an empathetic proximity. By way of example, the writer reconstructs the sameness of the ‘other’ by situating it into a distorted frame of an ‘I’ with which the self remains in immersive solidarity. Given that “The Third and Final Continent” is the story of a Bengali immigrant who endures lifelong hardships in pursuit of a better life in the United States, the above-mentioned nameless ‘I’ provides both the main character and the potential distant readers of the story with an affective means of self-transformation that renders their precarious lives more intelligible.

کليدواژه ها

Empathy, Immersion, Affect, Subject Formation, Self-Translation

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Peyman Hoseini , 1398 , Subjectivity Without a Subject: Exploring the Dialectics of ‘Empathy’ in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Third and Final Continent” , اولين کنفرانس بين المللي مطالعات زبان انگليسي