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Of Kaleidoscopic Mothers and Diasporic Twists: The Mother/Daughter Plot in the Work of Jhumpa Lahiri
Munos, Delphine
2017In Hegde, Radha S.; Sahoo, Ajaya K. (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora
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Keywords :
Jhumpa Lahiri; Indian Diaspora; Feminism
Abstract :
[en] Jhumpa Lahiri’s work is unusual for the ways in which it challenges the interlocked ‘matrophobic’ and assimilationist streaks at play in US ethnic and South Asian American literature. Taking its cue from Marianne Hirsch, this chapter examines how Lahiri’s ‘mother-friendly’ versions of the mother-daughter relationship have the potential to complicate the predetermined scripts pertaining to representations of the Indian-American diaspora as a ‘model diaspora’ by the homeland and a ‘model minority’ by the US, while opening new gendered vistas on silenced histories.
Research center :
CEREP - Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Études Postcoloniales - ULiège
Disciplines :
Literature
Author, co-author :
Munos, Delphine  ;  Université de Liège > Département de langues et littératures modernes > Littérature anglaise moderne et littérature américaine
Language :
English
Title :
Of Kaleidoscopic Mothers and Diasporic Twists: The Mother/Daughter Plot in the Work of Jhumpa Lahiri
Publication date :
2017
Main work title :
The Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora
Editor :
Hegde, Radha S.
Sahoo, Ajaya K.
Publisher :
Routledge, London, United Kingdom
ISBN/EAN :
9781138942899
Pages :
355-365
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
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