Interpreter of Maladies

many others, began sighing and worrying about finding the time to read it. Eight stacks of hardback and flimsy books were laid on a brown table on the left side of the room. I got up and slowly walked over to the table. I picked up The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. I flipped through it, and it didn’t seem interesting, so I put it back on the…

JhumpaLahiri faithfully depicted identity crisis of the first and second generation expatriates in her first novel The Namesake. This crisis is dealt through immigrant’s families and their internal and socio-cultural relations with the people of the foreign country. It deals with the cultural identity crisis which is faced by both the generation of the immigrants. In the case of the first generation, the immigrants face dilemma, consciousness of being an outsider and cultural identity crisis due…

to Rhode Island but after spending so many years in a foreign land she got to know they are still alien on that land. In lahiri’s fiction displacement and diaspora is very prominent. From her first book the collection of short stories the interpreter of maladies (1999) it is clear that she explores the hidden reasons behind identity crises and impact of diaspora on the people, who are moving from one place to another place for betterment or for some change in the lives. She has touched the…

Renaissance Studies. Lahiri has taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design.In 2001, Lahiri married a journalist , Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush. The couple lives in Italy with their two children. Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies (1999),a collection of short stories won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was made into a popular film .Lahiri's second collection of short stories, Unaccustomed Earth, was released in 2008.…

differences between Amy Tan and her mother, based on language. Other writers such as Jhumpa Lahiri examine the experience of immigrants in America. She uses her short stories, Mrs. Sen’s and The Third and Final Continent in the author’s collection, Interpreter of Maladies. Lan Cao and Chitra Banerjee also examine the challenges of immigration in their texts; The Gift of Language and Clothes, respectively.…

Culture is all around us. From what we wear to what we eat to how we speak. You can try to hide your connection to culture, but it will always find you. When searching for a definition to culture I feel Texas A&M University did an amazing job. Their definition states: “A culture is a way of life of a group of people—the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation…

Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston follows the life of Janie, a black woman in the South during the early 1900s, as she grows up and discovers the complicated nature of life and love. The novel begins with Janie, as a young girl, being raised by her grandmother. Worried about her old age, and inability to protect her granddaughter, “Nanny” arranged for Janie to marry an older man, Logan, when Janie was only sixteen. In this relationship, many of Janie’s expectations were not met.…