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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: Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date fall 2007) In the following essay, Song offers an extended analysis of The Namesake as an allegorical ode to childhood.] Jhumpa Lahiri was already a celebrated author when her first novel appeared in...
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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: 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: 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: Moving Migration: Narrative Transformations in Asian American Literature[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Einsiedel compares The Namesake with Bharati Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters on the basis of geography, colonialism, and the persistence of culture.] In recent years, a number...
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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: Tamkang Review[(essay date December 2009) In the following essay, Kung presents a detailed examination of Lahiri as an ideal representative of second-generation Indians in America.] The state of translation is the common condition...
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From: New Leader[(review date September-October 2003) In the following review of The Namesake, Austen presents a mixed assessment of Lahiri's novel, noting elements that pale in comparison to those within her short stories but...
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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: 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: Kenyon Review[(review date summer 2004) In the following review, Lynn asserts that in The Namesake, Lahiri attempts to "play in the literary big leagues, with the Gogols and the Tolstoys--the Russians so prized by the Indian...
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From: Nation[(review date 27 October 2003) In the following review, Bromwich favorably compares The Namesake with Lahiri's short stories, finding her to be an intuitive writer with a talent for writing scenes.] The hero of The...