Reading Jhumpa Lahiri: Women, Domesticity and the Indian American Diaspora

by Nilanjana Chatterjee

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032081570
• ISBN13: 9781032081571
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"