On the Alien Shore : A Study of Jhumpa Lahiri and Bharati Mukherjee
Contents: Preface. List of contributors. 1. Made in the USA: second generation South Asian identity interpreted through a Lacanian Lens/Farha Shariff. 2. Mixed marriages are a doomed enterprise: a taxonomical approach to family units in Jhumpa Lahiri’s short fiction/Blasina Cantizano Marquez and Jose R. Ibanez Ibanez. 3. The dwindling presence of Indian culture and values in Jhumpa Lahiri’s unaccustomed earth/Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz. 4. Cross-cultural differences and cross-border relationships in Jhumpa Lahiri’s unaccustomed earth/Subhashree Mukherjee. 5. Cultural diversity and immigrant identity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s interpreter of Maladies/S. Robert Gnanamony. 6. Short stories of cultural mix and clash/Aju Mukhopadhyay. 7. Object/subject dialectics in Jhumpa Lahiri’s a temporary matter and at Mrs. Sen’s/D. Nagarani. 8. Jhumpa Lahiri, a perceptive interpreter of Maladies/V. Jaya Lakshmi Rao. 9. Themes of cultural clash and marriage in Jhumpa Lahiri’s interpreter of maladies/Shuchi Agrawal. 10. Self and social identity in an alien land/Meera Bharwani. 11. Life gets uncomplicated here -- a cruise through Lahiri’s stories/Gigy J. Alex. 12. From the interpreter of maladies to the unaccustomed earth/Shubha Mukherjee. 13. Jhumpa Lahiri’s short stories/Mallikarjun Patil. 14. Diasporic Indian women in Jhumpa Lahiri’s unaccustomed earth/Tanushree Singh. 15. Bharati Mukherjee: a post-modern Indian woman novelist/M.F. Patel and Dinesh B. Chaudhary. 16. Indian woman in America and Canada: a study in connection with Bharati Mukherjee’s The Middlemen and Other Stories/M.B. Gaijan. 17. Indianness in the short stories of Bharati Mukherjee : a study of Hindus, Visitors and A Father/Rooble Verma and Manoj Verma. 18. Representing immigration through the logic of transformation: Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine/Lata Mishra. Index.
Indian diasporans have emerged as a new affluent, globetrotting international writers. They are the new socio-cultural elite and their homelessness and cultural distance are exercised as their telling features.
Jhumpa Lahiri, a name that stole the heart of every Indian by winning the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2000 with her debut collection of short stories -- Interpreter of Maladies, has created a prominent place not only in the world of fiction with her sought after novel Namesake. Whether it is her novel or her short stories, it is the pain and the passion of the expatriate that touches the soft corners of her heart and intrigues into the course realities of her mind.
Like Jhumpa Lahiri, Bharati Mukherjee, is also one of the celebrated writers who has given live picture of Indians in America and Canada. She explores many facets of feminism and immigrant experience in her fiction. She fictionalizes the process of Americanization by tracing a young Indian woman’s experiences of culture shock and triumph in her attempt to forge a new identity for herself.
This edited anthology of research articles is compiled with a specific objective to trace the continuities of Indian Writing in English and to enrich the critical corpus of Indian English Scholarship. There are eighteen critical articles in this anthology dealing with the works of Jhumpa Lahiri and Bharati Mukherjee. Dr. Jaydeep Saragi aims to expose, evaluate and thus honour these eminent writers and their contributions to Indian English literature.
