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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Jhumpa Lahiri"”.
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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 …
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The Family As the New Collectivity of Belonging In the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri
<p>Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri, writers of Indian origin, have earned recognition in the English speaking world as American writers, since both of them are residents of the United States. Their literary work has mostly been received as literary production in the United States reflecting the …
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Narratological (Re)Visions: Feminist Poetics and Nontraditional Narrative Structure in Contemporary Women’s Writing
… structures in works by Laila Lalami and Jhumpa Lahiri, and the representation of narrative consciousness in Ottessa Moshfegh’s <em>My Year of Rest and Relaxation</em>, the dissertation demonstrates how these techniques not only disrupt traditional narrative forms but also articulate the …
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Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference
… I develop this argument using American authors Jhumpa Lahiri, a first generation American of Bengali-Indian descent, and Bharati Mukherjee, an American of Bengali-Indian origin. I borrow from Deepika Bahri's materialist aesthetics in postcolonialism (in turn borrowed from members of the …
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Asian-American Literature and the Family Saga: Cyclical Histories of Racial Melancholia and Racial Dissociation
<p>This paper analyzes the novels The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, and Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig and argues how the family saga within Asian American literature draws out elements of the diaspora to best share histories across different ethnic and racial groups. There is …
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The Worldly Texts of After-School Programs: New Perspectives in Pedagogy
… works of Uma Narayan, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Jhumpa Lahiri, bell hooks, Gayatri Gopinath, Roxanne Gay, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Rosi Braidotti, Nina Chanel Abney and Gloria Steinem. With these theorists, novelists, artists, and activists in mind, mentors in Omaha’s community aid in teaching the …