{"id":902041,"date":"2023-10-17T17:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=902041"},"modified":"2023-10-17T17:47:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T17:47:05","slug":"exploring-jhumpa-lahiris-impact-on-south-asian-literature-and-american-assimilation-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/books-literature\/exploring-jhumpa-lahiris-impact-on-south-asian-literature-and-american-assimilation-stories","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Jhumpa Lahiri&#8217;s Impact on South Asian Literature and American Assimilation Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jhumpa Lahiri&#8217;s work is significant in the literary world, particularly for South Asian authors. This article&#8217;s author remembers reading Lahiri&#8217;s 1999 short story collection, &#8216;Interpreter of Maladies&#8217; as an undergraduate. Until the late 1990s, they had not studied any Indian authors. This period marked the rise of South Asian authors like Lahiri, Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, among others. Despite most of these authors being labeled as Anglophone, diasporic, or postcolonial, Lahiri was considered &#8220;American,&#8221; with her work highlighting the American assimilation story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jhumpa Lahiri&#8217;s work is significant in the literary world, particularly for South Asian authors. This article&#8217;s author remembers reading Lahiri&#8217;s 1999 short story collection, &#8216;Interpreter of Maladies&#8217; as an undergraduate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}