Naming Jhumpa Lahiri : canons and controversies / edited by Lavina Dhingra and Floyd Cheung.

Other author Dhingra, Lavina, 1965-
Other author Cheung, Floyd, 1969-
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2012.
Descriptionxxii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Lahiri, Jhumpa--Criticism and interpretation.

Contents Introduction: Naming Jhumpa Lahiri: Bengali, Asian American, postcolonial, universal? / Lavina Dhingra, Floyd Cheung -- Mediating the particular and the general: ethnicity and intertextuality in Jhumpa Lahiri's oeuvre / Karen Cardozo -- The inheritance of postcolonial loss, Asian American melancholia, and strategies of compensation in Jhumpa Lahiri's The namesake / Floyd Cheung, Lavina Dhingra -- What lies beneath: Lahiri's brand of desirable difference in Unaccustomed earth / Rajini Srikanth -- Novel/cinema/photo: intertextual readings of The namesake / Bakirathi Mani -- Affect, history, and the ironies of community and solidarity in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of maladies / Susan Muchshima Moynihan -- Intimate awakening: Jhumpa Lahiri, diasporic loss, and the responsibility of the interpreter / Rani Neutill -- Feminizing men?: Moving beyond Asian American literary gender wars in Jhumpa Lahiri's fiction / Lavina Dhingra -- Gendered (be)longing: first- and second-generation migrants in the works of Jhumpa Lahiri / Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt -- Re-rooting families: the alter/natal as the central dynamic of Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed earth / Ambreen Hai.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011042214
ISBN9780739169971 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0739169971 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780739169988 (electronic)
ISBN073916998X (electronic)

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