The maladies of malabsorption

the crisis of identity in jhumpa lahiris fiction: interpreter of maladies and the namesake

شکل گیری هویت(identity) مقوله مهمی در ادبیات پراکنده مردم(diasporan literature) می باشد. آثار جومپا لاهیری(jhumpa lahiri) ، نویسنده هندی آمریکایی، در سالهای اخیر تحسین منتقدین را به خود معطوف کرده است. وی در این آثار زندگی مهاجران و تلاش آنان برای پیدا کردن جایگاهشان در یک فرهنگ بیگانه را به تصویر کشیده است. این تجربه همواره با احساساتی نظیر دلتنگی برای گذشته، بیگانگی و دوری همراه است. با این ح...

Monsoon maladies.

The advent of monsoon in India provides a welcome relief from the dry hot summer and brings waves of life to parched landscapes across the country, but the cooling showers also bring along a lot of diseases. Infectious diseases like Dengue fever, Chikungunya, Hantaviruses, Nipah virus, Chandipura virus, Malaria and the novel H1N1 influenza virus had emerged or re-emerged as major public health ...

Misinterpreter of Maladies !

Sir, Jhumpa Lahiri is a freelance journalist whose collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year (2000). One of her stories, The Treatment of Bibi Haldar, presents a 29 year old woman who suffers from episodes of convulsions. The clinical description suggests a diagnosis of epilepsy for several reasons. The convulsions appeared to hav...

Minor Maladies

The maladies of Mary Queen of Scots.

UNTIL comparatively recently it has not been realized that Mary Queen of Scots from adolescence was a sufferer from peptic ulcer with acute exacerbations and later a cripple from rheumatoid and osteo-arthritis. In addition after the murder of her second husband, Darnley, she had a severe mental and physical breakdown and was not responsible for her actions, being at times in a semimaniacal stat...