Masterly suspenseful, sweeping, piercingly intimate, The Lowland is a work of great beauty and complex emotion; an engrossing family saga and a story steeped in history that spans generations and geographies with seamless authenticity. It is Jhumpa Lahiri at the height of her considerable powers. ...
Published on Jan 2019 Share this Article Jhumpa Lahiri is an American Indian writer born in London in 1967, but they moved to America two years after she was born. Lahiri's parents were first generation Bengalis from Calcutta and settled in Rhode Island where her father got employed at ...
Lahiri’s stories are mostly calm. There are some bigger changes in people’s lives and relationships, but even these are just larger-than-usual ripples on the surface of seemingly tranquil lives, not crashing waves. Her vantages and choices of perspective are interesting and unusual, and she ...
The Diasporic and Dilemmic Elements in the Work: The Namesake of Jhumpa LahiriSanthalakshmi P
them, and even that I lived with one though we were not married. She welcomed my boyfriends into our home and when things didn’t work out she told me I would find someone better. After years of being idle, she decided, when she turned fifty, to get a degree in library science at...
care-workaffectheteronormative familyThis article examines Pulitizer prize-winning Indian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri's engagement with masculinity and care-work in The Lowland (2013). Situated in a middle-class Bengali family, the novel revolves around the individualistic aspirations and intellectual ...
After melancholia: A reappraisal of second-generation diasporic subjectivity in the work of Jhumpa Lahirito the Latin, Greek, Sanskrit and French languages, among others. Miller, on the other hand, stresses that the theory of literature developed in his parts of the volume is subjective; that ...
Further, in bringing together Lahiri and O’Brien’s work under the epistemic paradigm of the “diaspora space,” I simultaneously emphasize that narratives can become “a symbolic space of intersubjective communication … to explain relationships which are articulated in different historical periods, ...
and Others(2022). Of her translation work, Lahiri toldHarvard Business Review, “I will always feel like an outsider wherever I am, and I continue to explore that in my work and my life. Translation is a way of insisting on that, because you are always on the outside of the text.”...