612 KB36 KB197820252017Stoican, Adriana Elenaštevilka:2letnik:40str. 123-136ISSN:0351-1189COBISSID_HOST:64759394URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-4AXRJRRFenSlovensko društvo za primerjalno književnostPrimerjalna književnostcultural identitycultural valueshuman migrationinterculturalitykulturna identitetakulturne vrednoteLahiri, Jhumpa, 1967--literatura in etikaliterature and ethicsmedkulturnostmigracijemigrationsMihalis, Rodica, 195?-A transgressive ethics of alterity in Jhumpa Lahiri's and Rodica Mihalis's narratives of uprooting|The paper investigates Jhumpa Lahiri's and Rodica Mihalis' accounts of uprooting in order to highlight their common transcending mechanisms that facilitate dialogues across cultural differences. By presenting interactions between South Asian, Romanian and American characters, the authors promote a conception of cultures as changing systems that can become enriched by transfers of meanings beyond borders. Both authors illustrate how characters who come from dissimilar cultural contexts can engage in meaningful interactions. The Indian-American encounters as well as the Romanian-American intersections are portrayed as opportunities for human understanding beyond the individuals' specific affiliations. By providing examples of cultural agreement between protagonists from highly different backgrounds, both authors present ethical models of cultural interactions that reduce the possibility of cultural clashes. If we accept the premise that literary figures can serve as ethical models, the possibility of cross-cultural communication presented by Lahiri and Mihalis seems especially relevant in the contemporary context of intersecting migration routes and cultural flows. Although produced by authors from different cultural traditions, the narratives discussed promote a transcultural ethics that reveals the importance of shared values as antidotes to cultural collisionPrispevek raziskuje pripovedi o izkoreninjenosti Jhumpe Lahiri in Rodice Mihalis z namenom, da izpostavi obema skupne presežne mehanizme, ki omogočajo vzpostavljanje dialoga kljub kulturnim razlikam. Avtorici prikazujeta interakcije med liki iz Južne Azije, Romunije in Amerike ter tako uveljavljata koncepcijo kultur kot spremenljivih sistemov, ki se bogatijo s transferi pomenov prek meja. Obe ilustrirata, kako lahko liki, ki prihajajo iz različnih kulturnih kontekstov, vzpostavijo pomenljive interakcije. Srečanja med Indijo in Ameriko ter med Romunijo in Ameriko upodabljata kot možnosti za medčloveško razumevanje, ki presega specifične afiliacije posameznikov. S primeri medkulturnega sporazumevanja med protagonisti z zelo različnim ozadjem avtorici prikažeta etični model medkulturnih interakcij, ki zmanjšujejo nevarnost spopadov med kulturami. Če sprejmemo premiso, da lahko razumemo literarne like kot etične modele, se zdi možnost medkulturne komunikacije, kakor jo prikazujeta Lahiri in Mihalis, še posebno relevantna v sodobnem kontekstu svetovne krize, kakor se kaže v sodobnih problemih migracij in terorizma. Čeprav avtorici v svojih delih izhajata iz različnih kulturnih tradicij, obe obravnavani pripovedi uveljavljata transkulturno etiko, ki v ospredje postavlja pomembnost skupnih vrednot kot zdravilo proti spopadom kulturTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaSlovensko društvo za primerjalno književnost