Naming Jhumpa Lahiri : canons and controversies

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Naming Jhumpa Lahiri : canons and controversies

edited by Lavina Dhingra and Floyd Cheung

Lexington Books, c2012

  • : cloth

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"First paperback edition 2012"--T.p. verso

Includes index

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内容説明

Jhumpa Lahiri is among the few contemporary writers being read widely by both mainstream and minority audiences, the general public and academic scholars, in the U.S. and globally. While her works focus on specific ethnic experiences of highly educated, upper middle-class professional Bengalis and their children living in New England since the 1970s, they simultaneously address universal themes that consistently keep them on the New York Times bestseller lists, and that have made the film adaptation of her novel, The Namesake (2006), into a transnational phenomenon. Lahiri is also one of the first South Asian American writers to be included in the Heath Anthology of American Literature. Even though South Asian diasporic writers have won many prestigious international prizes, the meteoric success of Jhumpa Lahiri has raised new questions regarding her naming: Is she a Bengali American writer? An Asian American writer? An Indian writer? An American writer? A postcolonial writer? Does what we name her matter? Does this naming determine whether, and how, and by whom Lahiri's texts are read and taught, and to which literary canons they belong? Why is Lahiri's writing so successful among multiple audiences, whether in Bengal, Boston, or beyond? Naming Jhumpa Lahiri: Canons and Controversies addresses these and other questions, and explains why naming matters, to whom, and how paying attention to these questions can deepen our appreciation for the politics surrounding Lahiri's works and our understanding of the literary texts themselves. This collection marks a significant evolution of the field of Asian American studies as it does not merely include scholars of South Asian descent writing about a South Asian writer in an ethnically confined context, but rather allows for intertextualities and conversations among scholars of varied ethnicities and fields including postcolonial, popular culture, psychoanalytic, film, women's, American, and world literature studies.

目次

Introduction: Naming Jhumpa Lahiri: Bengali, Asian American, Postcolonial, Universal Lavina Dhingra, Bates College, and Floyd Cheung Smith College Part 1: The Ethnic, the Orientalist, and/or the Universal? Chapter 1: Mediating the Particular and the General: Ethnicity and Intertextuality in Jhumpa Lahiri's Oeuvre Karen Cardozo, Five Colleges, Inc. Chapter 2: The Inheritance of Postcolonial Loss, Asian American Melancholia, and Strategies of Compensation in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake Floyd Cheung, Smith College, and Lavina Dhingra, Bates College Chapter 3: What Lies Beneath: Lahiri's Brand of Desirable Difference in Unaccustomed Earth Rajini Srikanth, University of Massachusetts Boston Part 2: Consuming Diaspora: Audience and Imaginary/Intimate Communities Chapter 4: Novel/Cinema/Photo: Intertextual Readings of The Namesake Bakirathi Mani, Swarthmore College Chapter 5: Affect, History, and the Ironies of Community and Solidarity in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies Susan Muchshima Moynihan, State University of New York at Buffalo Chapter 6: Intimate Awakening: Jhumpa Lahiri, Diasporic Loss, and the Responsibility of the Interpreter Rani Neutill, Johns Hopkins University Part 3: Gendered Ruptures and Familial Belongings Chapter 7: Feminizing Men?: Moving Beyond Asian American Literary Gender Wars in Jhumpa Lahiri's Fiction Lavina Dhingra, Bates College Chapter 8: Gendered (Be)Longing: First- and Second-Generation Migrants in the Works of Jhumpa Lahiri Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, Linfield College Chapter 9: Re-Rooting Families: The Alter/Natal as the Central Dynamic of Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth Ambreen Hai, Smith College

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