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2025-10-09T18:24:04Z urn:hdl:10459.1/468725 The Battle Between Order and Chaos and Its Reconciliation in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland Jiménez Rodríguez, Esther Order Chaos The Lowland Lahiri Water Land Ecofeminism Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland explores identity through concepts such as order, duty, freedom and chaos. The inner conflict of the text—order against chaos—is already hinted at in the title. Considering the metaphorical implications of these ideas, water may be associated with chaos and freedom while land suggests duty and order. The two siblings depicted in Lahiri’s story serve as personifications of this: Udayan represents chaos (unfolding freedom and rebelliousness), while Subhash symbolizes order (embodying duty and care). In this sense, Udayan illustrates water and Subhash symbolizes land. The character of Bela, Udayan and Gauri’s daughter, resolves this dichotomy through her ecofeminist perspective that exemplifies ecological care. Bela manages to bridge the gap between the two worlds: science and the natural world, reason and emotion, order and chaos, and, ultimately, land and water. 2025-10-09T18:24:04Z 2025-10-09T18:24:04Z 2025 info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/468725 Fragments of Meaning: Dialogues in Language, Literature, and Culture. Selected Papers from the 47th International Conference of Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN). Sevilla, November 6th - 8th, 2024 / Montse Martínez Vázquez, Daniel Nisa Cáceres, and Sonia Casal Madinabeitia (Editors). Sevilla : Enredars : AEDEAN, 2025, p. 238-244. ISBN: 9788409711437 cc-by-nc-nd (c) Esther Jiménez Rodríguez, 2025 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Enredars Publicaciones (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN)