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Cod. ISBN	9789042037403
Autore	Munos Delphine
Titolo	After Melancholia A Reappraisal of Second-Generation Diasporic Subjectivity in the Work of Jhumpa Lahiri
Editore	Brill
Anno	2013
Descrizione	Mindful of the tunnel vision sometimes created by the privileging of â€˜hybridity talkâ€™ and matters of culture in discussions of texts by minority writers, Delphine Munos in After Melancholia reads the work of the Bengali-American celebrity author Jhumpa Lahiri against the grain, by shifting the ground of analysis from the cultural to the literary. With the help of psychoanalytic theories ranging from Sigmund Freud through AndrÃ© Green and Nicolas Abraham to Jean Laplanche, this study re-evaluates the complexity of Lahiriâ€™s craft and offers major insights into the authorâ€™s representation of second-generation diasporic subjectivity â€“ an angle hitherto neglected by critics working from the narrower theoretical boundaries of transnationalism, diaspora studies, postcolonial theory, and Asian-American studies alike. Via interdisciplinary incursions into the domains of literary and psychoanalytic criticism, as well as into those of trauma and diaspora studies, Munos takes up â€œHema and Kaushik,â€ the triptych of short stories included in Unaccustomed Earth (2008), as exemplary texts in which Lahiri redefines notions of belonging and arrival regarding the Bengali-American second generation, not in terms of cultural assimilation â€“ which would hardly make sense for characters born in the USA in the first place â€“ but in terms of a resymbolization of the gaps in the parentsâ€™ migrant narratives. Munosâ€™ in-depth reading of Lahiriâ€™s trilogy is concerned with exploring how â€œHema and Kaushikâ€ signifies on the absent presences haunting transgenerational relationships within the US diasporic family of Bengali descent. Bringing to the forefront such â€˜negativeâ€™ categories as the gap, the absent, the unsaid, the melancholically absented mother, After Melancholia reveals that the second-generation â€˜Mother Diasporaâ€™ is no less haunting than her first-generation counterpart, â€˜Mother Indiaâ€™. Calling for a re-assessment of Lahiriâ€™s work in terms of a dialectical relationship between (transgenerational) mourning and melancholia, Munos provides a compelling reading grid by means of which underrepresented aspects of the rest of Lahiriâ€™s work, especially her novel The Namesake (2003), gain new visibility.
Collana	Cross/Cultures
Consistenza	284 p.
Prezzo di copertina	€ 97,00
Disponibilità	Normalmente disponibile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi.

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