Reading Jhumpa Lahiri

This book is an innovative & unconventional study of Jhumpa Lahiri's Indian American female characters' lived & imagined diasporic reality, using the house as an analytical tool. It will be of interest to South Asian/ Diaspora/ Migration/ Culture/Gender Studies, Feminist Writings & Asian Literature.

Nilanjana Chatterjee is Assistant Professor of English at Durgapur Government College in India. She has published research papers on diaspora studies and culture studies, and some of her ongoing projects include work on Angami Kire's formation of digital ethnic identity and on women and natural resource management in Naga folktales and stories. She has co-edited "Re-theorising the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora: Old and New Directions".

Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. Interpreter of Maladies: We are(n't) Tied to House; 3. The Namesake: House Deferred; 4. Unaccustomed Earth: House Heals, House Hurts; 5. The Lowland: House as Salvation or/and Damnation; 6. In Other Words and The Clothing of Books: To Dwell is to Be; Bibliography; Index