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Inept parents and confused children in Faulkner's novels
People?s personal development varies according to the family environment in which they live. The children raised by trust and love can adapt to the world easily while the ones who imprison themselves in their own private cages, judging the life cruelly. The novels of William Faulkner that I have analyzed, The Sound and The Fury, As I Lay Dying; Absalom, Absalom! tell the stories of confused children who seeks for themselves all through their lives. Key
Bildungsroman'i yeniden yazmak: Jhumpa Lahiri'nin the Namesake ve The Lowland eserlerinin postkolonyal analizi
This study will analyze the cultural change and development of an identity in the novels of Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland and The Namesake, through exposing to an alien culture by immigration. The notion of dual identity, cultural colonialism, postcolonialism and the form of Bildungsroman will be discussed and analyzed in detail. The aim of this study is to underline that the concept of identity is not national or pre-given, and that it is an alterable and re-creatable notion through the cultural exchange and cultural differences. The cultural transformation and the development of identity of the first and second generation immigrants and the immigrant experience will be discussed in the light of Homi K. Bhabha's theories on identity, culture, cultural colonialism and the structure of Bildunsgroman which contributes to the notion of development as it depicts the life span of its protagonist.