LEADER 04346nam 2200613 450 001 9910453281403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a94-012-0991-X 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401209915 035 $a(CKB)2550000001166651 035 $a(EBL)1581549 035 $a(OCoLC)864745835 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001130598 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11659379 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001130598 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11110510 035 $a(PQKB)11053168 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1581549 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401209915 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1581549 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10816347 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL548017 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001166651 100 $a20131213d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfter melancholia $ea reappraisal of second-generation diasporic subjectivity in the work of Jhumpa Lahiri /$fDelphine Munos 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cRodopi,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 225 1 $aCross cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English ;$v169 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-3740-7 311 $a1-306-16766-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographic references (pages 207-218) and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Diaspora?s Hereafters -- Revenant Melancholy -- Dead Mothers and Hauntings -- The Future of Diaspora -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index. 330 $aMindful 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 the ground of analysis from the cultural to the literary. With the help of psychoanalytic theories ranging from Sigmund Freud through André Green and Nicolas Abraham to Jean Laplanche, this study re-evaluates the complexity of Lahiri?s craft and offers major insights into the author?s representation of second-generation diasporic subjectivity ? 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 ?Hema and Kaushik,? 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 ? which would hardly make sense for characters born in the USA in the first place ? but in terms of a resymbolization of the gaps in the parents? migrant narratives. Munos? in-depth reading of Lahiri?s trilogy is concerned with exploring how ?Hema and Kaushik? signifies on the absent presences haunting transgenerational relationships within the US diasporic family of Bengali descent. Bringing to the forefront such ?negative? categories as the gap, the absent, the unsaid, the melancholically absented mother, After Melancholia reveals that the second-generation ?Mother Diaspora? is no less haunting than her first-generation counterpart, ?Mother India?. Calling for a re-assessment of Lahiri?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 Lahiri?s work, especially her novel The Namesake (2003), gain new visibility. 410 0$aCross/cultures ;$v169. 606 $aEmigration and immigration in literature 606 $aSubjectivity in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEmigration and immigration in literature. 615 0$aSubjectivity in literature. 676 $a813.54 700 $aMunos$b Delphine$0978986 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453281403321 996 $aAfter melancholia$92231698 997 $aUNINA