{"id":332,"date":"2017-12-07T17:51:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T17:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/?page_id=332"},"modified":"2018-09-06T14:12:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T18:12:48","slug":"in-other-worlds-jhumpa-lahiri-on-the-italian-language-and-culture-as-a-place-of-creative-freedom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/events\/2015-16-events\/in-other-worlds-jhumpa-lahiri-on-the-italian-language-and-culture-as-a-place-of-creative-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Wor(l)ds: Jhumpa Lahiri on the Italian Language and Culture as a Place of Creative Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u200cMonday October 5, 2015 – 6.30-8.30pm
\n<\/strong>University Hall 7th Floor Conference Center<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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As an established writer in one language, how does one “relocate” to another language and another culture? This lecture\/conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri -recent recipient of the National Humanities Medal- will focus on her recent book written in Italian and entitled\u00a0In altre parole<\/em>, and limn some of the creative struggles and rewards of the choice to live in a foreign world and to write in foreign words.<\/p>\n

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The exploration of the\u00a0beauty and\u00a0richness of the Italian language acquires unexpected meanings when it is undertaken by a prominent writer in today\u2019s literary landscape (The Namesake<\/em>,\u00a0Interpreter of Maladies<\/em>, among other works), whose link to Italy is exclusively shaped by an aesthetic affinity.\u200cLahiri\u2019s award-winning books are well known for their inquiry into the experience of people caught between two countries, worlds, and languages, namely the Indian one of the author\u2019s parents and the American one of her own experience. Less well known is her deep interest in Italian culture and language, or as she terms it, her \u201clove affair\u201d with it. The title of the program uses her book\u2019s title, which means \u201cin other words,\u201d as a springboard to discuss not just language but also the broader experience of traveling through a different culture, its values and myths, and its artistic patrimony, in order to try to find a place within it. Lahiri\u2019s tenacious and lyrical approach to the learning of a foreign language like Italian, which constitutes an object of desire for her and today \u201ca new home,\u201d is a fascinating story of risky exploration, formal control, as well as emotional closeness and creative challenge that promises to engage a diverse audience.<\/p>\n

The presentation will be in English and Italian with consecutive translation.
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