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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"The Namesake"”.
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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 Cherry Orchard
Similar to the namesake of this manuscript, Anton Chekhov’s play The Cherry Orchard, the poems that make up this collection explore loss—loss of home, loss of time, loss of loved ones, loss of self. Some of the poems originate from personal experiences, while others utilize modes like the …
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Geological constraints on Neoproterozoic glacial episodes
Neoproterozoic glacial episodes are amongst the most intense glaciations that the Earth has experienced, and are associated with major changes in the Earth System, such as the breakup of a supercontinent, the evolution of complex multicellular life and extreme geochemical perturbations. A …
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Student aid and college attendance : analysis of government intervention in the higher education market
This thesis consists of three essays in public finance and labor economics, with a focus on the economics of higher education. Chapter J estimates the effect of grant aid on college attendance. I exploit the variation in aid created by the elimination of the Social Security Student Benefit Program, …
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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
… 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 Lahiri’s …