Supplementary Reading for The Namesake
Available at UNC Chapel Hill's Davis Library
On Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction
Bala, Suman, ed. Jhumpa Lahiri, the Master Storyteller: A Critical Response to
Interpreter of Maladies. New Delhi: Khosla, 2002.
PS3562 .A316 Z75 2002
Gaur, Rashmi. “Nine Sketches Interpreting Human Maladies: An Assessment of Jhumpa
Lahiri’s Stories.” Discussing Indian Women Writers: Some Feminist Issues.
Eds. Alessandro Monti and R.K. Dhawan. New Delhi: Prestige, 2002. 139-150.
PR9492.6 .W6 D57 2002
Haldar, Santwana. “Jhumpa Lahiri and Interpreter of Maladies.” Discussing Indian
Women Writers: Some Feminist Issues. Eds. Alessandro Monti and R.K.
Dhawan. New Delhi: Prestige, 2002. 151-166.
PR9492.6 .W6 D57 2002
Sohn, Stephen Hong. “Ethical Responsibility in the Intersubjective Spaces: Reading
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies and "A Temporary Matter’.”
Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits. Ed. Shirley Geoklin Lim. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2006.
PS153 .A84 T73 2006
On South Asian American Literature
Bahri, Deepika. ”Always Becoming: Narratives of Nation and Self in Bharati
Mukherjee's Jasmine.” Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of
Relocation. Ed. Susan L. Roberson. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1998. 137-54.
PS374 .W6 W66 1998
Fischer-Hornung, Dorothea and Heike Raphael-Hernandez, eds. Holding Their Own:
Perspectives on the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. Tübingen:
Stauffenburg, 2000.
PS153 .M56 H65 2000
George, Rosemary Marangoly. “'At a slight angle to reality': Reading Indian Diaspora
Literature.” MELUS 21.3 (Fall 1996): 179-193.
PN843 .M18
Göbel, Walter. “Bharati Mukherjee: Expatriation, Americanality, and Literary Form.”
Fusion of Cultures? Eds. Peter O. Stummer and Christopher Balme. Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 1996. 111-18.
PR9080.5 .F87 1996
Katrak, Ketu H. “South Asian American Literature.” An Interethnic Companion to
Asian American Literature. Ed. King-Kok Cheung. Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
1996. 192-218.
PS153 .A84 I58 1997
Lowe, Lisa. Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics. Durham: Duke UP,
1996.
PS153 .A84 .L69 1996
Patell, Cyrus R. K. “Representing Emergent Literatures.” American Literary History
15.1 (Spring 2003): 61-69.
PS1 .A58
Shankar, Laina Dhingra and Rajini Srikanth. “South Asian American Literature: ‘Off
the Turnpike’ of Asian America.” Postcolonial Theory and the United States:
Race, Ethnicity, and Literature. Ed. Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt. Jackson:
U of Mississippi P, 2000. 370-387.
PS153 .M56 P67 2000
On Indian Literature in English
Desai, Anita. “Indian Fiction Today.” Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences 111.4 (Fall 1989): 207-231.
Q11 .B7
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, ed. A History of Indian Literature in English. New York:
Columbia UP, 2003.
PR9489.6 .H57 2003
The New Yorker. Special Issue on Indian Writers. 23 and 30 June 1997.
AP2 .N677
On Migration and Writing from South Asia
Bande, Usha. Cultural Space and Diaspora: Journey Metaphor in Indian Women's
Writing. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2003.
PR9492.6 .W6 B36 2003
Bhari, Deepika and Mary Vasudeva, eds. Between the Lines: South Asians and PostColoniality. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1996.
E184.S69 B48 1996
Ghosh, Bishnupriya. When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary
Indian Novel. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 2004.
PR9492.5 .G47 2004
Kumar, Amitava, ed. Away: The Indian Writer as an Expatriate. New York:
Routledge, 2004.
PR9485.45 .A93 2004
Kumar, Amitava. Bombay—London—New York. New York: Routledge, 2002.
PR9492.5 .K86 2002
Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991. London:
Granta and Penguin, 1991.
PR6068 .U757 I4 1991
Russell, Elizabeth. “Cross-Cultural Subjectivities: Indian Women and Theorizing in the
Diaspora.” Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities.
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. 77-98.
PR9080.5 .C38 2002
Sethi, Rumina. Myths of the Nation: National Identity and Literary Representation.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1999.
PR9485.5 .N27 S48 1999
Spivak, Gayatri. “Diasporas Old and New: Women in the Transnational World.” Class
Issues: Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and the Public Sphere. Ed. Amitava Kumar.
New York: New York UP, 1997. 87-111.
LC196 .C53 1997