TY - BOOK AU - Nigamanda Das, Ed. TI - Jhumpa Lahiri: critical perspectives SN - 8185753873 U1 - 813.5409 PY - 2008/// CY - New Delhi PB - Pencraft KW - East Indian diaspora in literature N2 - Nuances of human relationships (largely under diasporic tensions), longing and nostalgia for the homeland, alienation and marginality in the host country, ?ÇÌdifficulties of existence?ÇÕ in various processes of hybridization, layered communication in chronological narrativity are some of the many aspects of Lahiri?ÇÕs writing interrogated in this volume. In addition to two general essays on her art and two interviews with her, the anthology carries a large number of close critical studies on both Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake./ Nigamananda Das teaches in the Department of English, Nagaland Central University, Kohima ER -