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Unit 11: Literary Analysis: The Third and Final Continent by Jhumpa Lahiri

Self Assessment Notes

Fill in the blanks:
1. Jhumpa Lahiri was born on July ......... 1967.
2. He was an Indian ......... author.
3. Lahiri’s family shift to U.S. when she was ......... .

4. Lahiri’s mother was ......... .

11.3 Summary

• Jhumpa Lahiri was born on (July 11, 1967) is an Indian American author.

11.4 Keywords

Heritage : Property that is or may be inherited
Immigrant : A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
Continent : Any of the world’s main continuous expanses of land

Renaissance : The revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models
in the 14th-16th centuries.
Testament : A person’s will.

11.5 Review Questions

1. What was the name of the debut short story collection of Jhumpa Lahiri?
2. When did Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize?
3. Write feature of the “The Third and Final Continent”.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. 11 2. American
3. three 4. Bengali.

11.6 Further Readings

Books Interpreter of Maladies, Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Indian English Literature, Basavaraj Naikar, Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2007

Online links http://www.enotes.com/namesake

http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Lahiri.html
http://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/2004/07/nameless-jhumpa-lahiris-namesake.html

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