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From: Bookforum[(interview date April-May 2008) In the following interview, Lahiri discusses the theme of assimilation in Unaccustomed Earth, stylistic aspects of the stories in this collection, and the challenges of being classified...
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From:The New Yorker (Vol. 91, Issue 39)Byline: BY JHUMPA LAHIRI TEACH YOURSELF ITALIAN For a writer, a foreign language is a new kind of adventure. EXILE My relationship with Italian takes place in exile, in a state of separation. Every...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 19. )"A Temporary Matter," the first story in Jhumpa Lahiri's debut Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Interpreter of Maladies, captures a pivotal moment in a couple's relatively short but eventful marriage. At times absurdly...
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From: MELUS[(essay date fall/winter 2004) In the following essay, Brada-Williams contends that The Interpreter of Maladies is more than a random collection of short stories, as evidenced by its careful structural balance and...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date spring 2000) In the following review, Noor praises The Interpreter of Maladies not only for exploring the experiences of immigrants, but also for considering larger human issues.] Born in England of...
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From: North Dakota Quarterly[(essay date winter 2003) In the following essay, Caesar analyzes the short story "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine," describing how Lahiri uses certain key images and emblems to build meaning.] Jhumpa Lahiri's Pulitzer...
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From: Naming Jhumpa Lahiri: Canons and Controversies[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Dutt-Ballerstadt considers Lahiri’s placement within the literary canon, with reference to her depictions of Bengali migrants and their American children and the...
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From: Language in India[(essay date November 2011) In the following essay, Shinde evaluates the film adaptation of Lahiri's novel The Namesake.] Novel is defined as a long narrative in prose and can be treated as a 'Word'. Film is also a...
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From: Atenea[(essay date June 2007) In the following essay, Caesar scrutinizes the significance of the numerous allusions to the writer Nikolai V. Gogol in The Namesake.] Allusions to Nikolai V. Gogol and his short story "The...
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From: MELUS[(essay date fall-winter 2004) In the following essay, Brada-Williams discusses Interpreter of Maladies, asserting that intricate motifs and thematic concerns connect the stories in the volume.] It may at first seem...
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From: Commentary[(review date November 2003) In the following review, Munson compares The Namesake with Jonathan Lethem's Fortress of Solitude, identifying thematic commonalities and noting that both are "beset with many of the same...
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From: Hudson Review[(review date autumn 2008) In the following review, Wilhelmus places Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth in the context of literature examining "the nightmare of history."] --History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I...
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From: Modern Fiction Studies, Special Issue: Theorizing Asian American Fiction[(essay date spring 2010) The following essay forms the introduction to a special issue devoted to "Theorizing Asian American Fiction." The editors of the issue--Sohn, Lai, and Goellnicht--here describe the disciplinary...
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From: Passages: Movements and Moments in Text and Theory[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Harte applies Homi K. Bhabha’s theories about borders to close readings of three of Lahiri’s stories and to the means by which the immigrant characters construct identity as...
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From: Book[(essay date September-October 2003) In the following essay, Langer provides a biographical profile of Lahiri and finds The Namesake to be "a novel of epic sweep told with a short story's precision."] Halfway to Ellis...
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From: Studies in Literature and Language[(essay date 31 October 2010) In the following essay, Bahmanpour offers a close reading of the stories contained in Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies.] Introduction Interpreter of Maladies (1999), the 2000...
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From: New Statesman[(review date 8 September 2008) In the following laudatory review, Martin enumerates the strengths of the stories collected in Unaccustomed Earth, asserting that the volume "contains some of the best, most beautiful...
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From: Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Shankar underscores the negotiation between Western and Eastern audiences undertaken by Divakaruni and fellow Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri and questions the obligation...
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From:Short Stories for Students (Vol. 19. )The world that Jhumpa Lahiri creates in "A Temporary Matter" is one in which women are in charge. Women act; men react. This state of affairs is a reversal of traditional gender roles in India, the country from which...
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From: Journal of Indian Writing in English[(essay date January 2002) In the following essay, the Chakrabartis contrast the literary approaches taken by Lahiri and Shubodh Ghosh, who writes about life in Bengal during the period between 1950 and 1960.] The...