Cides and De-cidal Characters in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

An Interdisciplinary Approach

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ID22008302
AuthorsHojat Goodarzi (0009-0005-0997-0294), Pyeaam Abbasi (0000-0002-4264-5873), Zahra Jannessari Ladani (0000-0002-2417-5142)
Year2025
Volume27
Issue2
Pages239-262
Publication date2025-06-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInterdisciplinary Literary Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2161-427X • E-ISSN: 1524-8429
PublisherThe Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5325/intelitestud.27.2.0239
OpenAlexW4411231869
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited27

As a novel interdisciplinary study between literature and philosophy of ethics and aesthetics, the doctrine of cides revolves around the tendency of creating an ethical binary opposition out of the cidal and de-cidal practices. The cidal practices illuminate the decision-postponing ones within the early modern philosophy and the de-cidal practices elaborate on the decision-executing ones to overcome that dichotomous propensity aesthetically. The cides doctrine delays hewing the cognitive faculties into categories of superiority and inferiority. The present study hinges on the cides doctrine and the faculties of sensibility and imagination. It deals with the textual analysis of The Namesake (2003) in the context of the cides doctrine and literature as perfect sensate discourse. Accordingly, its fictional characters make sensate and somatic attempts to surmount the cidal reactions de-cidally. These de-cidal characters are termed as cultured characters of sensibility or felix aestheticus who make their most fatal decisions in confusing situations

African history and culture studies · Publishing and Scholarly Communication · Short Stories in Global Literature · Geology

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