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Lunch With a Bigot: The Writer in the World
By
Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar
Amitava Kumar is Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English at Vassar College. He is the author of
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Duke University Press
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This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7539-5
Publication date:
2015
This chapter discusses the death of the author’s mother. The essay is devoted partly to a description of the rituals of death—Hindu funerals—but the author is also detailing a writer’s response to grief and mourning. Writers might anticipate in what they write the suffering that death will bring, but, as this essay shows, even while reality conforms to what has been imagined, there are other surprises.
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