Sen’s’ can be read in both a post-colonial and feminist perspective and how these theories give us a more rounded view of the texts. 2013, p.54).įocusing primarily on two of Lahiri’s short stories, the present paper will examine how ‘Sexy’, and ‘Mrs. ‘The texts explore human relationships that exist in the complex network of ethnicity, nationality, identity, cultural assimilation and rejection as well as hybridity’(Gholipour, M & Sanahmadi, M. Within the representation of the colonial subject, Lahiri presents, lie issues of gender, oppression, the ‘other’, alienation, class and the human psyche as the source of identity, allowing us to read the text through not only a post-colonial, but also a Marxist, feminist, queer and psychoanalytic perspective. n.d).Ĭomprising of nine short stories, the collection explores the varying effects of colonisation on individuals who are struggling to maintain and reform their identities as Indians, in both their home countries and in the US. Jhumpa Lahiri’s collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies ‘has been celebrated as one of the new voices in Indian diaspora literature’ and deals directly with presenting the effects of colonialism on first and second-generation immigrants living in the United States (Sharma, C.S.
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