Jhumpa Lahiri, the Interpreter of the New Indian Diaspora

• Monaco, Angelo ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Pisa

     University of Pisa

     Pisa, Italia

     
• Localización: Impossibilia, ISSN-e 2174-2464, Nº. 9, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Literaturas, culturas y migración), págs. 72-92
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Published in 1999, at the turn of a new century and on the threshold of the third millennium, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, among many other awards) is a collection of stories charting the new Indian diaspora, in the aftermath of the 1965 reformation of the American immigration policy. This paper proposes a textual analysis of Lahiri’s debut work through the lens of diasporic discourse, in order to show how the poised and elegant voice of the Indian-American writer significantly sheds new light on diasporic literature, mediating between ethnic and global issues.