After Melancholia: A Reappraisal of Second-Generation Diasporic Subjectivity in the Work of Jhumpa Lahiri

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Introduction
1 - Diaspora\'s Hereafters
	Speaking from the End of the Line
	Imagining Entangled Genealogies
	Reaching Out Beyond Diaspora
	Performing the Phantom Loss of the Motherland
Revenant Melancholy
	Firing the Loaded Gun
	Unassimilable Death:A History of Transgenerational Entanglement
	Home Is Where the Haunt Is
	The Return of the Dead Buried Within the Other
	Kaushik\'s Melancholic Crime
	Kaushik\'s Exile of Self
	Kaushik\'s Impossible Memory, or the Unreliable Narrator
Dead Mothers and Hauntings
	Gothicized Repetitions and Haunted Beginnings
	The Phantom, or Hema\'s Intention
	The Other Dead Mother
The Future of Diaspora
	Afterwardsness, or the Possibilityof Translating Oneself into the Future
	Rome: The Postal Effect
	Hema\'s Failed Translations
	Kaushik\'s Failed Repression
	Claiming the Mother\'s Luggage
	Into the Maternal Necropolis: A History of Guilt
	The Ending as True Beginning
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index