Kalyan Chatterjee
Government General Degree College, Manbazar-II, Purulia, West Bengal
Volume 8, Number 1, 2016 I Full Text PDF
Abstract
This paper seeks to look at the culinary associations of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies to explore the metaphor of food as it is employed by Lahiri to delineate different shades and nuances of the lives of mostly the expatriate people, concentrating especially on how food negotiates the unease in living in an adopted land. The first section of this paper introduces the critical issues related to food and eating, and the second section moves on to the analysis of her short story collection Interpreter of Maladies, relating the stories to the issues discussed in the first section of the paper.
Keywords: Food, Diaspora, Indian American Diaspora, Jhuma Lahiri Keep Reading