Jhumpa Lahiri The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri: THE NAMESAKE, Harper Collins

New This is the incredible bestselling first novel from Pulitzer Prize winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri. 'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib. And so, Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes!' For now, the label on his hospital cot reads simply 'Baby Boy Ganguli'. But as time passes and still no letter arrives from India, American bureaucracy takes over and demands that 'baby boy Ganguli' be given a name. In a panic, his father decides to nickname him 'Gogol' - after his favourite writer. Brought up as an Indian in suburban America, Gogol Ganguli soon finds himself itching to cast off his awkward name, just as he longs to leave behind the inherited values of his Bengali parents. And so, he sets off on his own path through life, a path strewn with conflicting loyalties, love and loss! Spanning three decades and crossing continents, Jhumpa Lahiri's much-anticipated first novel is a triumph of humane story-telling. Elegant, subtle and moving, "The Namesake" is for everyone who loved the clarity, sympathy and grace of Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection, "Interpreter of Maladies". ISBN - 0007258918

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Mohit K. Ray, Rama Kundu: Studies in Women Writers in English: Vol. 4, Atlantic ,2005 ,New Delhi ISBN: 8126904852

The twenty-three essays included in this fourth volume of the series cover a wide spectrum of women writers across space and time. The women writers discussed in this volume include five from Britain: Mary Shelly, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Doris Lessing, and of course Virginia Woolf, the twentieth century stalwart of British novel, who has lefther indelible mark on the art of fiction as well as on women writers and feminist thinkers of the subsequent decades. We also get a glimpse of the entire corpus of writers engaged with the 'feminist theatre' of America today, in addition to two African-American talents, i.e. Toni Morrison, the Nobel Laureate for literature in 1993, and Alice Walker, the eminent Black American woman writer, and a host of contemporary Indian writers, particularly with reference to their recent work, including Shashi Deshpande, Anita Desai, Shobhaa De, Manju Kapur, Nayantara Sahgal, as well as two emigre Indian writers- Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri. Contents: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: A Study in Repression and Hysteria- S.P. Swain; "The Drug of Dreams": Charlotte Behind, Jane Eyre- K.M. Jan; A Critique on The Mill on the Floss- Mrinal Kanti Chattopadhyay; Virginia Woolf: Impressionistic Heritage of Laurence Sterna- Vera Tchebineva; Love with a Fruit-Dish: A Study of To the Lighthouse- Liliane Louvel; Revisiting Woolf's Room after the Third Wave- Rajesh Kumar Sharma; The Unexplored Universe of Doris Lessing- N. Sharad Iyer; From Alienation to Identification: A Study of Alice Walker's The Color Purple- S.P. Swain and Sarbajit Das; Loss of Self: A Study of Morrison's Beloved- S.P. Swain and Sarbajit Das; Gender, Race and Class Consciousness in Morrison's Tar Baby- M.L. Jadhav; Challenging the Patriarchy- Vera Shamina; Modern Indo-Anglo Women Writing: Quest for Equality- Pushp Lata; Women in Quest for Sexual Freedom and Emancipation in Anita Desai's Fictions- KH. Kunjo Singh; Occidental Quest for Oriental Spiritualism in Jhabvala's Three Continents and Desai's Journey to Ithaca- Anita Myles; Arundhati Roy: A Protest Novelist- Rahmat Jahan; The God of Small Things as Expression of Social Structure- Prakash Chandra Pradhan; 'Dreams to Doom' in Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters- Binod Mishra; Obession to Ovation: A Thematic Study of Manju Kapur's A Married Woman- Binod Mishra; Lesser Breeds: A Post Colonial Reading- Chandrika Kamath; Anatomy of Change and the Problems of the Self: A Study of Bharti Mukherjee's The Tiger's Daughter- S.P. Swain; Problems of Identity: A Study of Bharati Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters - S. P. Swain; Quest for Identity in Immigrant Sensibility: A Study of Bharati Mukherjee's Desirable Daughters- Bhagabat Nayak; Cultural Dilemmas and Displacements of Immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake- Tejinder Kaur.; Hardbound

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Dr. Jaydeep Sarangi: On the Alien Shore (A Study of Jhumpa Lahiri and Bharati Mukherjee) Authors Press
Indian diasporans have emerged as a new affluent, globe-trotting 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. 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. 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. ISBN-9788189012223

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K.V. Dominic: Critical Studies on Contemporary Indian English Women Writers, Sarup & Sons Publishers
Contents: Preface. 1. Locale as an extension of the self: a study of Anitha Desai's novels/Latha R. Nair. 2. The Dravidian aesthetics in Anita Desai: a feminist perspective/V. Ramesh. 3. "She had been alone: a moment of private triumph": alienation in Anita Desai's Fire on the Mountain/Sr. Sophy Pereppadan. 4. Language, literature and society--the paradoxical psyche of an archetypal Indian woman: Sita in Anita Desai's Where shall we go this summer?/V. Ramesh. 5. Human relationships and political upheaval in Kamala Markandaya's The golden honeycomb/Shishu Paul. 6. Kamala Markandaya's Indian women--the principles and the principals--a feministic elucidation/V. Ramesh. 7. Tracing a woman's poetic world without borders: comparative studies of world women poets in India and the west/Laksmisree Banerjee. 8. The inevitable metamorphosis: the cocoon breaks and 'Surayya' comes out of 'Kamala Das'/V. Alexander Raju. 9. Indian feminist author Sarojini Sahoo on female sexuality: an interview/Linda Lowen. 10. The changing voice of 'Rebati' remains the same: musings on feminism/Sarojini Sahoo. 11. The girl is mother: girl children in Shashi Deshpande's select novels/Vincent Aerathu. 12. Voice of the silenced: a reading of Shashi Deshpande's novels/Asha Susan Jacob. 13. Incoherent and loosened relationships: a reading of Shashi Deshpande's "Wingless Angels" and "Amputated Mothers" in her short stories/G. Baskaran. 14. Subaltern voices: who will speak for them? An exposition of The God of small Things/Premalatha Dinakarlal. 15. The God of Small Things : a Layman's study in psychology/K. Nirmala. 16. Perspectives on the "Mestiza" consciousness: Bharati Mukherjee's Desirable daughters/Eliza Joseph. 17. Representing immigration through the logic of transformation: Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine/Lata Mishra. 18. The depiction of the cultural elements of the Marar community in Jaishree Misra's Ancient Promises/Joji John Panicker. 19. Repression and retrieval: a study of the truncated lives of Indian women immigrants in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's short stories, "Clothes" and "The word love"/S. Vasigaran. 20. Interview with Rizio Yohannan Raj/Jaydeep Sarangi. 21. Conflicting positions in Jumpa Lahiri's The Namesake/Sandip Guha Roy and Joydeep Banerjee. 22. The politics of mothering: womanhood, identity and resistance in Jumpa Lahiri's fiction/Lata Mishra. 23. The intricate web of human relationships in Githa Hariharan's novel The Thousand Faces of Night/Avis Joseph. 24. "Caliban Paradigm" in The inheritance of loss: a post-colonial perspective/Chithra P.S. 25. The poetic self on a spiritual tour in Smita Tewari's Hourglass/Sudhir K. Arora. 26. Physical and psychological sufferings during the freedom struggle: a critical study of Chandramoni Narayanaswamy's novel : The Karans of Penang/P.C.K. Prem. 27. Writing a new script for woman: Charmayne D' Souza's A Spelling Guide to Woman/Sudhir K. Arora. Index. "Prof. K.V. Dominic's book on contemporary Indian English women writers bears a distinct stamp from other books on this topic as it is mainly written by eminent professors-cum-writers, and edited very diligently, mostly applying the latest documentation style for literature--MLA style, 2009 edition. There are twenty-seven scholarly articles, including an interview, in this book, critically examining the different aspects and themes of the various works of established writers like, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Kamala Das, Shashi Deshpande, Arundhati Roy, Bharati Mukherjee, Jaishree Misra, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri, Gita Hariharan, Kiran Desai and emerging writers like, Smita Tewari, Chandramoni Narayanaswamy, Sarojini Sahoo, and Charmayne D'Souza." ISBN - 8176256315

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