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Interpreting a culinary montage: Food in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies

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dc.contributor.author Garg, S.
dc.contributor.author Lahiri, K.R.
dc.date.accessioned 2016-12-01T08:55:24Z
dc.date.available 2016-12-01T08:55:24Z
dc.date.issued 2016-12-01
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/701
dc.description.abstract Jhumpa Lahiri, a Bengali American writer who rose to fame on being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her first work of fiction, is well known for her generous use of culinary images in her fiction. She writes about Bengali Americans and the daily challenges they face in their lives. This paper intends to examine the relevance of food consumption and its significance at the personal level as well as the broader political level in Lahiri's The Interpreter of Maladies (1999). At the textual level, the paper shows that food acts as an aid to compensate for the understated narrative style of the author. Further, this paper underpins the fact that food not only acts as an identity marker but also negotiates personal, racial, sexual and social identities of the immigrant subjects. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.subject Bengali-American community en_US
dc.subject Food en_US
dc.subject Identity en_US
dc.subject Indian diaspora en_US
dc.subject Jhumpa Lahiri en_US
dc.subject Nostalgia en_US
dc.title Interpreting a culinary montage: Food in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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