Introduction -- Interpreter of maladies: we are(n't) tied to house -- The namesake: house deferred -- Unaccustomed Earth: house heals, house hurts -- The lowland: house as salvation or/and damnation -- In other words and The clothing of books: to dwell is to be.

Bibliographische Detailangaben

1. Verfasser:	Chatterjee, Nilanjana (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2022
Ausgabe:	First edition
Schriftenreihe:	Routledge contemporary South Asia series 147
Schlagworte:	Lahiri, Jhumpa > 1967- Häuslichkeit Inderin USA Lahiri, Jhumpa / Criticism and interpretation East Indian Americans in literature Women in literature Home in literature Dwellings in literature Literary criticism
Zusammenfassung:	Introduction -- Interpreter of maladies: we are(n't) tied to house -- The namesake: house deferred -- Unaccustomed Earth: house heals, house hurts -- The lowland: house as salvation or/and damnation -- In other words and The clothing of books: to dwell is to be. "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"--
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	xii, 195 Seiten
ISBN:	9781032081571 9781032107325