Practices of (neoliberal) governmentality: racial and gendered gaze in Jhumpa Lahiri’s fiction by Asl, Moussa Pourya, Nurul Farhana Low Abdullah

“…Among the works of the contemporary writers of Indian diaspora experience in America, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies (1999) has addressed issues of displacement, assimilation and acculturation modifying Indian diaspora individuals and families. …”
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Half a century of suicide studies - a plea for new directions in research and prevention by Maniam, T, Chan, L.F.

“…Experience elsewhere from studies of the Indian diaspora have elucidated a number of explanations, which include the effects of poverty, acculturation, alcoholism, the lack of a strong religious protective factor as well as increased rates of mental ill-health. …”
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Circulation of the discourse of American nationalism through allegiance to consumer citizenship in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake by Asl, Moussa Pourya, Nurul Farhana Low Abdullah

“…This essay examines South Asian American writer Jhumpa Lahiri’s literary engagement with the re-Orientalization and sexualization of a collective subject described as Indian diaspora within the context of contemporary consumer culture. …”
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