Cultural identity : different ways of constructing identity for first-and-second generation immigrants in The namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri by Flores, Verónica Inés

“…For this study, I will approach the concept of identity from a non-essentialist point of view because, as Kathryn Woodward, Professor of Sociology at the Open University (United Kingdom), states, when adopting a non-essentialist position regarding identity, identities are fluid, have different elements which can be reconstructed in new cultural conditions, and are not fixed essences locked into differences which are permanent for all time (1997, p. 29). …”
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