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THE CLOTHING OF BOOKS
Jhumpa Lahiri
June 10th, 2015
“Camerado, this is no book; who touches this, touches the man.”
(Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass)
1. The Charm of the Uniform
In the house of my father’s family in Calcutta, which I visited as a child, I would watch my cousins getting dressed in the mornings. They got themselves ready for school; I, on the other hand, was on vacation. They donned every morning, after bathing and before having breakfast, the same thing: a uniform.
My cousins attended different schools and therefore their respective uniforms were also different. My male cousin wore blue cotton shorts. My female cousin, a few years older, wore an orange skirt. Apart from these two colors the rest of the uniform was identical: a white short-sleeved shirt, white socks, black shoes.
In the closet there were probably two pairs of blue shorts, two orange skirts. It was enough to put on what was cleaned and pressed. In America, before leaving for India, my moth
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Vaporous Shapes
Jhumpa Lahiri made her name with two collections of stories – Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and Unaccustomed Earth (2008) – in which a range of characters negotiate the kinds of tension that Lahiri herself may have experienced growing up in New England as the daughter of Bengali immigrants. Families are torn between different cultures and languages, children divide their loyalties between Eastern parents and Western partners. Her plots are driven by polarities of feeling: the desire to belong, to remain within the safe länk eller koppling of traditional relationships and close family ties, and the contrary desire for independence. Generational hierarchies are inverted when a savvy child has to skydda her ‘foreign’ parents in a kultur through which she moves more easily than they do; at the same time, they scold her for being ‘too integrated’.
This sense of geographical, cultural and linguistic displacement fryst vatten also present in La