Boori Ma

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Boori Ma is a destitute, elderly Bengali woman who serves as the self-appointed gatekeeper of an old Calcutta apartment building in Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story “A Real Durwan.”

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bengali woman
destitute person
elderly woman
fictional character
literary character
short story character
ageStatus elderly
analyzedFor themes of memory and loss
themes of migration
urban class dynamics in Calcutta
appearsIn "A Real Durwan" NERFINISHED
"Interpreter of Maladies" NERFINISHED
associatedWith memory
nostalgia
post-Partition displacement
poverty
social marginalization
characterIn a short story set in post-Partition India
createdBy Jhumpa Lahiri NERFINISHED
economicStatus homeless
poor
ethnicity Bengali NERFINISHED
featuredIn South Asian American literature syllabi
postcolonial literature courses
firstPublishedIn 1999
firstPublishedInCollection "Interpreter of Maladies" NERFINISHED
gender female
hasRole durwan
gatekeeper
knownFor guarding the entrance of the building
sweeping the stairwell of the apartment building
telling elaborate stories about her past
language Bengali
literaryFunction symbol of class tensions
symbol of displacement
symbol of unreliable memory
nameOf Boori Ma NERFINISHED
nationality Indian
occupation self-appointed gatekeeper
publisherOfFirstCollection Houghton Mifflin NERFINISHED
relationshipToTenants caretaker GENERATED
outsider GENERATED
residesIn Calcutta NERFINISHED
an old Calcutta apartment building
settingOfLife a dilapidated Calcutta tenement
storyCollectionGenre short story collection
storyGenre realist fiction

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A Real Durwan mainCharacter Boori Ma