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The journey of food from ‘When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine’ to ‘Mrs. Sen's’ in Lahiri'sInterpreter of Maladies
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Lahiri's debut collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, paradoxically establishes intertextuality, humanity, otherness, negotiation as well as respect, albeit in different contexts.Abstract:
As a chronicler of cultural interface, in Jhumpa Lahiri's debut collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, food paradoxically establishes intertextuality, humanity, otherness, negotiation as well as respect, albeit in different contexts This article tries to highlight how the highly acclaimed writer constantly underscores the politics of Bengali diaspora identity in her stories through multiple nuances of the food metaphor, highlighting the specificity of Bengali cuisine and eating etiquettes, by creating a subtle dialogue between the second and the sixth story of the collection It intends to explore how the journey of the food metaphor from ‘When Mr Pirzada Came to Dine’ to ‘Mrs Sen's’ works in a typical pattern of the deconstruction of hegemonic discourses, in the critique of the plight of Bengali diaspora women, in the reinterpretation of difference and, thereby, in the development of their Bengali immigrant identityread more
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Practices of (Neoliberal) Governmentality: Racial and Gendered Gaze in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the complex dynamics of the gaze in Jhumpa Lahiri's stories with a particular focus on the coercive character of power and the unequal gendering of the (examining) gaze.
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as mentioned in this paper are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
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Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century
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