Why Do Writers Abandon Their Local Literature?

Both Grace Paley’s On Clarice Lispector and E.W.’s Why do writers abandon their native language readings introduce writers who wrote in non-native languages, trying to find incentives for that decisions. The first reading is about Clarice Lispector and the environment where she lived. The second reading is about Jhumpa Lahiri and lists some possibilities why Lahiri started to write in Italian. However, two central hypotheses are the impact of environment and freedom which foreign language can provide. While most likely Clarice Lispector started to write in Portuguese because of the impact of the environment, Jhumpa Lahiri stopped writing in her native language for bloom offered by