maximum city lost and found by suketu mehta

The identity crisis, searching for home and plight for the existence faced by the protagonist in the novel will be examined. The author himself is the protagonist in his work, who left for New York in his youth and when returned his remembered childhood does not exist. : Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (9780144001590) by Suketu Mehta and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available.

In the present paper the elements like search for home and identity crisis will be examined in a work written by the fiction writer and journalist Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. There are various kinds of diasporas like Asian diaspora, European diaspora, African diapora and the principal characteristics of diasporic writing are nostalgia, alienation, crisis of identity, search for home and etc. Therefore, in Mehta's work, the city is portrayed as the ultimate locus for both intellectual investigation and self-investigation -due to the markedly autobiographical quality of Mehta's narrative. That is, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found has a hybrid nature that mingles autobiographical aspects with depictions of the city in a symbiotic narrative in which the representations of both the city and of Mehta himself are mutually influential and interpenetrable. Suketu Mehta Friederike Costa Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found Paperback Septemby Suketu Mehta (Author) 571 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 11.16 - 22.95 52 Used from 1.50 11 New from 18.99 8 Collectible from 14. One of the most emblematic characteristics of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found is precisely the imbrication Mehta engenders between the narrative about the city of Bombay and his own personal history.

The present paper aims to explore some of the central features of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, written by Indian author Suketu Mehta, in order to make explicit how Mehta, through his exploration of the city of Bombay and of its 'extreme characters', weaves a new identity for the city he carried in his memory and, as a consequence, reconfigures the understanding he had of his own immigrant writer/artist identity.

Maximum city lost and found by suketu mehta