khaled hosseini books and the mountains echoed

This paper aims to examine Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake (2003), from the framework of transnationalism characterized by migration, transculturation, and hybridity in both first generation and second generation of immigrants. The paradigm of diaspora in the United States has shifted from the moved-to-here immigrants to born-here immigrants, from the longing for the re-turn to the authentic origin to the longing for the emergence of a self-affirmative identity.

Intercultural dialogue has become increasingly important in the multicultural societies and the forms of cross cultural communication are repeatedly reflected in mainstream fiction. This edited volume brings to the field a novel convergence of theoretical and empirical approaches by gathering together scholars from different countries of Europe and the Mediterranean area, from different disciplines and backgrounds, challenging the traditional discipline division. Searching for novel epistemologies and methodologies, the research questions here addressed are how identity is negotiated in migration processes, and how these negotiations work in contemporary multiethnic Europe. Migrations, understood as dynamic processes that do not end when landing in the host country, offer the best conditions to analyze the construction and transformation of social identities in the postcolonial and globalized societies. Its ground is the understanding of identity as a complex social phenomenon resulting from constant negotiations between personal conditions, social relationships, and institutional frameworks.

This book addresses the impact of migration on the formation and transformation of identity and its continuous negotiations.

Khaled hosseini books and the mountains echoed