The discussion approaches Jhumpa Lahiri's novel The Lowland, aiming to trace the author's
positioning in relation to modern and postmodern assumptions. The argument follows the …

Relying on a cultural studies approach to literature of migration, this chapter focuses on
Jhumpa Lahiri's1 first generation female protagonist (Gauri) from her novel The Lowland …

Between 9/11 and the current era of the executive order infamously known as the 'Muslim
ban', subscribing to Islam has transformed from being an individual's private choice to a …

The migration of Indians to various destinations during the past few decades has led to the
emergence of a group of writers known as Asian-American authors in literature. These …

Jhumpa Lahiri is among the postcolonial writers who have experienced the different
difficulties and complexities of being a diasporic individual. Her experiences have been …

Many have categorized Jhumpa Lahiri's oeuvre as the “immigrant genre”, in which the
immigrants search for a location where they can feel at home in their new homeland. All her …

Jhumpa Lahiri's novel The Lowland traces the traumatic effect of a family event upon
members of different generations–wife (Gauri), brother (Subhash) and daughter (Bela) …

This dissertation presents the different experiences and problems faced by immigrants in an
alien land, in Jhumpa Lahiri the namesake, the novel reveals many authentic facts about …

In their introduction to a 2007 food and literature issue of MELUS, Fred L. Gardaphe and
Wenying Xu argue that food often “has an ability to last longer as a signifier for ethnicity than …

This paper attempts to analyse the metaphorical representation of immigration in Jhumpa
Lahiri's novel The Namesake (2003). It aims to explore the way in which the process of …