![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This article analyzes Gauri’s character based on the idea of transnational feminism as established by Inderpal Grewal in the book Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms. Her character contains possibilities that can be analyzed to reveal a new woman having the prospect of becoming an example of transnational feminism. As further reversal of gender role she engages into lesbianism at a certain stage of her life. Gauri reverses the role of a wife and a mother by embracing the role of an individual devoted to academic pursuits and personal achievements. Gauri’s character defies the usual characteristics of Indian women in general of her time, a time that goes back to the 1960s-70s. She embodies the concept of an unconventional femininity. Gauri Mitra is an American immigrant from India as well as a brilliant professor of Philosophy in Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Lowland (2013). ![]()
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