Teaching French and Francophone Cultural Identities in a Course on Chanson

2016 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Judy Kem
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identities ◽  
French And Francophone

Cultural Identities

2021 ◽  
pp. 299-328
Author(s):  
Elke Steinmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identities

Semiotics of Clothes in Postcolonial Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-215
Author(s):  
Somaye Sharify ◽  
Nasser Maleki
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Postcolonial Literature ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Female Immigrant ◽  
Cultural Displacement ◽  
Romance Fiction ◽  
Dress Codes ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe present study intends to examine the link between clothes and cultural identities in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Hema and Kaushik” (2008). It will argue that Lahiri explores her protagonists’ cultural displacement through their items of clothing. We want to suggest that the protagonists’ clothes are employed in each narrative as signifiers for the characters’ cultural identities. The study will further show that each item of clothing could be loaded with the ideological signification of two separate cultures. In other words, it aims to demonstrate how ideology imposes its values, beliefs, and consequently its dominance through the dress codes each defines for its subjects. Moreover, it intends to suggest that the link between clothing and identity is most visible and intense in the case of female immigrant characters rather than men. Drawing on Luptan’s structure of the Cinderella line, we will explore Lahiri’s protagonists’ cultural transformation from simple ethnic girls to stylish American ladies through their items of clothing. The study will conclude that the “Cinderella line” does not work in Lahiri’s realistic stories the way it does in fairy tales and romance fiction.

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