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Reading Jhumpa Lahiri - Women, Domesticity and the Indian American Diaspora (Hardcover)
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Reading Jhumpa Lahiri - Women, Domesticity and the Indian American Diaspora (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
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This book is an innovative and rigorous study of Jhumpa Lahiri's
Indian American female characters' lived and imagined diasporic
house space, using domesticity and the house as an analytical tool
to explore their hidden domestic spaces. The book explores how the
house as a spatial construct, shares a symbiotic relationship with
its inhabitants, and through their implicit and explicit response
to various parts of their diasporic house space, interprets their
maladies, limitations and opportunities. Indian American diasporic
women, especially homemakers, have long been grappling with issues
of socio-cultural invisibility as they have no other space to
interact with except their houses in the hostland, now more than
ever, during the global corona crisis. A reading of this
multi-layered relationship between houses and their women will help
readers understand not only the political, intellectual, emotional
and sexual dispositions of middleclass Indian women in America, but
also social, cultural and economic positions they occupy within the
hostland. The book shows the represented domestic interstices and
looks at them as signifiers of distinct individual trajectories,
wherein lies embedded the women inhabitants' oppositions beneath
the acceptance of normative Indian family values in diaspora. It
also offers elemental insights into ways in which migration acts as
an opportunity for establishing new, often hybridized, identities,
for which it is important to realise their connections with their
house space. Presenting an alternative methodology for reading real
and imagined lives of women in Indian American diaspora, the book
proposes an unconventional mode of understanding diasporic
realities and representations in cultural studies that is not
readily apparent. It will be of interest to researchers in the
field of South Asian Studies, Diaspora Studies, Migration Studies,
Culture Studies, Feminist Writings, Gender Studies and Asian
Literature. Foreword by Bill Ashcroft
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