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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: 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: Reconstructing Hybridity: Post-Colonial Studies in Transition[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Kuortti offers a postcolonial reading of Lahiri's story "This Blessed House" in order to elucidate the ways in which her writing engages with the issue of translation of...
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From: Women's Review of Books[(review date November-December 2008) In the following favorable review, Sen examines the major thematic concerns of the stories in Unaccustomed Earth.] Indian immigrants in America--their material success, their...
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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...
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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: MELUS[(essay date winter 2007) In the following essay, Williams considers the role of food and culinary practice in the stories "A Temporary Matter," "Mrs. Sen's," and "This Blessed House."] "Preparing fish is a political...
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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:Literature-Film Quarterly (Vol. 42, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAt first, there seems to be a deliberate cohesion between Jhumpa Lahiri's novel The Namesake and Mira Nair's subsequent film adaptation of it by the same name. Nair included Lahiri and her family as extras in the film;...
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From:Atenea (Vol. 27, Issue 1)Allusions to Nikolai V. Gogol and his short story "The Overcoat" permeate Jhumpa Lahiri's novel The Namesake, beginning with Gogol's being the name the protagonist is called through most of the book. Yet few of the...
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From:MELUS (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn January 2006, Manish Vij, a regular contributor to the popular South Asian American cultural interest blog Sepia Mutiny, posted an incisive send-up of the commodification of transnational South Asian novels in...
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From:Twentieth Century Literature (Vol. 53, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJhumpa Lahiri was already a celebrated author when her first novel appeared in print. Her short story "Interpreter of Maladies" was selected for the O. Henry Prize and for inclusion in Best American Short Stories. Her...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn his article "The Indian Diaspora and Reading Desai, Mukherjee, Gupta, and Lahiri" Amit Shankar Saha argues that displacement produces a point of encounter between the alien and authority. Saha analyses aspects of...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 5, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe present paper attempts to indicate the way through which Lahiri investigates the issue of name and immigrant's identity and belongingness in The Namesake. In the ancient era an enormous number of Indians immigrated...