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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Modern South Asian Literature in English[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Brians discusses the stories that comprise The Interpreter of Maladies and explains that their theme is not so much the problems of immigrants as it is miscommunication between...
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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: World Literature Today[(review date September-December 2004) In the following review, Agarwal asserts that Lahiri's Namesake has a plot identical to Bharati Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters, but notes that Mukherjee's protagonist regresses to...
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From: Naming Jhumpa Lahiri: Canons and Controversies[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Hai examines how the stories of Unaccustomed Earth focus on the difficulties of human transplantation, particularly of middle-class Bengalis into American culture.] I As...
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From: Confrontation[(review date winter 2008) Below, Mhatre praises Unaccustomed Earth as the latest entry in an oeuvre that impresses with its ability to relate the immigrant experience.] Much of America's dynamic and creative way of...
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From: North Dakota Quarterly[(essay date winter 2003) In the following essay, Caesar utilizes "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine" to illuminate Lahiri's ability to transcend the boundaries of postcolonial, Asian American, and American fiction.]...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date January-February 2009) In the following positive review, Rendon analyzes the strong appeal of the stories in Unaccustomed Earth.] Unaccustomed Earth is Jhumpa Lahiri's second collection of short stories,...
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From: Commonweal[(review date 19 December 2003) In the following review, Ruddy outlines the strengths and weaknesses of The Namesake.] Fred Lynn and Jhumpa Lahiri likely have never heard of one another. Lynn, the former Boston Red Sox...
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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...
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From: English Studies in Canada[(essay date March 2005) In the following essay, Caesar contends that American interior space is central to the stories in Interpreter of Maladies and that the book offers insight "into the causes of the malaise of...
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From: Indian Writers: Transnationalism and Diasporas[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, De presents Lahiri's protagonist Gogol Ganguli as an archetype of diasporic identity formation.] "For God's sake, open the universe a little more!"--Saul Bellow, The Dean's...
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From: Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Kuortti examines Lahiri's exploration of identity translation in her writings, particularly the story "This Blessed House."] Introduction Some time after the publication of...