Author(s)

Jiangyu Wei

School of Foreign Language Education, Jilin University, Changchun, China.

The novel The Lowland (2013) written by Jhumpa Lahiri seemingly begins with the story of twin brothers, Subhash and Udayan, but eventually turns into the independent journey of a woman named Gauri. This paper attempts to trace Gauri in two spaces—the traditional society of India and the modern society of the U.S.—and shows her transformation guided by feminist geographic theories.

Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland, Feminist Geography, Gendered Space, Spatial Confinement

Wei, J.Y. (2023) The Independent Road of Gauri: A Feminist Geographic Analysis of The Lowland. Open Access Library Journal, 10, 1-8. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1110288.