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After Melancholia : a Reappraisal of Second-Generation Diasporic Subjectivity in the Work of Jhumpa Lahiri /
Mindful of the tunnel vision sometimes created by the privileging of 'hybridity talk' 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
2013.
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| Colección: | Cross/cultures ;
169. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Illustrations; Introduction; 1
- Diaspora's Hereafters; Speaking from the End of the Line; Imagining Entangled Genealogies; Reaching Out Beyond Diaspora; Performing the Phantom Loss of the Motherland; Revenant Melancholy; Firing the Loaded Gun; Unassimilable Death:A History of Transgenerational Entanglement; Home Is Where the Haunt Is; The Return of the Dead Buried Within the Other; Kaushik's Melancholic Crime; Kaushik's Exile of Self; Kaushik's Impossible Memory, or the Unreliable Narrator; Dead Mothers and Hauntings.
- Gothicized Repetitions and Haunted BeginningsThe Phantom, or Hema's Intention; The Other Dead Mother; The Future of Diaspora; Afterwardsness, or the Possibilityof Translating Oneself into the Future; Rome: The Postal Effect; Hema's Failed Translations; Kaushik's Failed Repression; Claiming the Mother's Luggage; Into the Maternal Necropolis: A History of Guilt; The Ending as True Beginning; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index.