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Interpreter of maladies

Interpreter of maladies. by Jhumpa Lahiri. Malady. noun, plural -dies. any disorder or disease of the body, especially one that is chronic or deep-seated . any undesirable or disordered condition: social maladies; a malady of the spirit. . Overview.

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Interpreter of maladies

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  1. Interpreter of maladies by JhumpaLahiri

  2. Malady noun, plural -dies. • any disorder or disease of the body, especially one that is chronic or deep-seated. • any undesirable or disordered condition: social maladies; a malady of the spirit.

  3. Overview • Abook collection of nine short stories published in 1999 • Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award • Chosen as The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year and is on Oprah Winfrey's Top Ten Book List. • The stories are about the lives of Indians and Indian Americans who are caught between the culture they have inherited and the "New World."

  4. Author’s Background

  5. Lahiri is a second-generation Indian-American immigrant who experienced the “psychological dislocation” of feeling both at home in India and America, and simultaneously as if she belonged nowhere.

  6. Cultural issues • The estrangement and isolation that often afflict first- and even second-generation immigrants. • An exploration of our understanding of other people and of ourselves. • Gender roles , class and familial issues faces in both cultures • Disjunction between Indian and American Cultures

  7. Themes • Questions of Identity • Alienation and the Plight of those who are Culturally Displaced • Care and Neglect • The Danger of Romanticism

  8. Motifs & Symbolism Consider the significance of the following as we read: • Seeing/Interpretation • Food • The Camera

  9. Essential questions As we read, consider the following: • What are the “maladies” that trouble all of us? • How does culture impact and define us? • What influences how we interpret others?

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