Borderline communities: aesthetic and authorial thresholds in the postcolonial script and film adaptations of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

The borders of adaptation studies are constantly in flux, with scholars keen to discover new perspectives and methodologies, examine forms push boundaries across disciplines. Despite these calls, however, there have been few inquiries which actively analysed the liminal script, caught between betwixt literary work film. To this end, article takes a contrapuntal approach – tearing down disciplines postcolonial, screenwriting analyse representation diaspora, “borderline community migration” (Bhabha 1994, 9), script film adaptations Jhumpa Lahiri’s Namesake (2006). do so, various unpublished versions Soona Taraporevala’s screenplay, as well Mira Nair’s transposition, examined reference postcolonial tenets, reveal dual discourse, reflective collective authorship, conscious unconscious meaning is negotiated, deferred from one successive text next.