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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Interpreter of Maladies"”.
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Lack of Affirmative Consent: Trauma in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies”
<p>Most scholars who have published analyses of the title story of Jhumpa Lahiri’s 1999 Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection, <em>Interpreter of Maladies</em>, read Mina Das’s character as a woman who chose to be unfaithful to her husband with a friend who once stayed in their home, …
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Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference
My paper examines how American authors of the South Asian Diaspora (Indian-American or South Asian American) can be read 1) as simply American and 2) without regard to ethnicity. I develop this argument using American authors Jhumpa Lahiri, a first generation American of Bengali-Indian descent, and …
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Investigating the Problematic of Migrant Identity in South-Asian and Arab Postcolonial Fiction in English: A Cross-Cultural Comparison
The aim of this thesis is to examine the problematic of identity formation in the case of the migrant subject by relating it to the direct effects of the socio-cultural transformation which inevitably takes place in the country of migration. In the fictional works to be discussed, the identity of …
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After Melancholia: A Reappraisal of Second-Generation Diasporic Subjectivity in the Work of Jhumpa Lahiri
While Jhumpa Lahiri’s work might be thought of as one of the most emblematic instances of the popularity of today’s Indian-American diasporic literature, it remains that its hyper-visibility coincides with an odd form of critical invisibility. This is not to say that critical interventions on …