The location of transcultural memory in Vikram Seth’s memoir Two Lives (2005) by Nadia Butt

“…Having addressed the transcultural turn in the field of memory studies, I closely examine transcultural memory in Vikram Seth’s memoir Two Lives in order to address broader issues of diasporic identities and the coming together of Indian and European histories within a memory narrative. Set mostly in Germany and England, Two Lives recounts individual histories—at first parallel, and separated, but later intertwined—of Seth’s great-uncle Shanti Seth and his German-Jewish wife Hennerle Caro. …”
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