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1 online resource (xxii, 221 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Summary |
"This collection of nine essays by scholars in the fields of postcolonial, Asian American, and other literary studies explains why categorizing the best-selling, award-winning work of Jhumpa Lahiri as either universally 'great' and/or ethnically specific matters, to whom, and how paying attention to these questions can deepen students, general readers, and academic scholars appreciation for the politics surrounding Lahiri s works and understanding of the literary texts themselves"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Naming Jhumpa Lahiri: Bengali, Asian American, Postcolonial, Universal? -- Part One. The Ethnic, The Orientalist, and/or The Universal? -- Chapter 1. Mediating the Particular and the General: Ethnicity and Intertextuality in Jhumpa Lahiri's Oeuvre -- Chapter 2. The Inheritance of Postcolonial Loss, Asian American Melancholia, and Strategies of Compensation in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake -- Chapter 3. What Lies Beneath: Lahiri's Brand of Desirable Difference in Unaccustomed Earth -- Part Two. Consuming Diaspora: Audience and Imaginary/Intimate Communities -- Chapter 4. Novel/Cinema/Photo: Intertextual Readings of The Namesake -- Chapter 5. Affect, History, and the Ironies of Community and Solidarity in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies -- Chapter 6. Intimate Awakening: Jhumpa Lahiri, Diasporic Loss, and the Responsibility of the Interpreter -- Part Three. Gendered Ruptures and Familial Belongings -- Chapter 7. Feminizing Men? Moving Beyond Asian American Literary Gender Wars in Jhumpa Lahiri's Fiction -- Chapter 8. Gendered (Be)Longing: First- and Second-Generation Migrants in the Works of Jhumpa Lahiri -- Chapter 9. Re-Rooting Families: The Alter/Natal as the Central Dynamic of Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lahiri, Jhumpa -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Lahiri, Jhumpa. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Dhingra, Lavina, 1965-
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Cheung, Floyd, 1969-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dhingra, Lavina. Naming Jhumpa Lahiri : Canons and Controversies. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2011 9780739169971 |
| ISBN |
9780739169988 (electronic book) |
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073916998X (electronic book) |
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1283432846 |
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9781283432849 |
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9780739169971 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0739169971 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786613432841 |
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