Diasporic Mediations in Eugenides’ Middlesex
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2018-04
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Faculty of Art in English
Abstract
The main objective of this research work is to explore the diasporic
mediations in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex. Due to some assimilated traits and
some non-assimilated traits, the Greek-American face problem of ambivalent identity
in the novel Middlesex. Eugenides employs the hermaphrodite protagonist and many
Greek mythical allusions along with the vivid description of many assimilated and
non-assimilated traits in different generations of the Greek-American immigrants to
show the hybrid identity of Greek-American Immigrants. In this multigenerational
novel, the Greek-American immigrants neither can completely assimilate in the
American culture nor can completely follow the Greek culture, and they suffer from
identity ambivalence. Thus, the Greek-American writer Jeffrey Eugenides exposes the
identity ambivalence of the Greek-American diasporas in his novel Middlesex. The
researcher analyzes that hybridity of identity by using the diaspora and ethnic identity
theory of Homi K. Bhabha, R. Radhakrishnan, Salman Rushdie, Robert Young,
William Safran , Stuart Hall and so on
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Eugenides, hermaphrodite, assimilation, diaspora