Indu Prabha Pathak Research Scholar Banathali university (Rajasthan) Communication is the undercurrent theme of ‘Interpreter of Maladies’. The characters in the stories are tormented by maladies which accentuates the need for communication. Shuchen aptly observes: “The nine stories have in common certain themes and motifs, such as exile, displacement, loneliness difficult relationships, and problems about…
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Pattern of Imagery: A Thematic and Structural Study of Selected Works of Jhumpa Lahiri
Hemlata Research Scholar Dept. of English and Foreign Languages M.D.U Rohtak (Haryana) & Meenakshi Goyal Research Scholar Dept. of English and Foreign Languages M.D.U Rohtak (Haryana) Jhumpa Lahiri is a second generation diasporic writer, observer and “ABCD i.e. another badly confused Desi” (Das 14). She experiences and represents the problems of alienation, frustration, marginalization, discrimination,…
Bengali Diasporic Culture: A Study of the Film Adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake (2003)
Subrata Kumar Das Ph.D. research scholar Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake (2003) is a culture-oriented, more precisely, a Bengali diasporic culture-oriented novel. As a diasporic novel it represents the diasporic themes like displaced, dislocated and deterritorised feelings of the first generation expatriates like Ashima…
Diasporic Women in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
Indu. B. C Ph.D Scholar International Centre for Kerala Studies Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram Kerala Abstract This paper attempts to explain the cross cultural conflicts, trauma, isolation, aspirations and dilemmas of the Indian Women immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake , especially Aashima Ganguly, who find herself in between the native culture and host culture and her…
Existential Crisis in Second-Generation Immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth
Shivangi Srivastava Research Scholar Department of English and Modern European Languages University of Lucknow Lucknow– 226007 India Jhumpa Lahiri belongs to the second generation of Indian immigrant writers in United States. Lahiri concerns her writing with the consciousness of the need for regaining roots in the tradition of India and a strong nostalgic pull towards…
The Treatment of Immigrant Experience in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Name Sake
D.Ebina Cordelia Assistant Professor in English Holy Cross College,Tiruchirappalli Tamilnadu. Indian writing in English is one of the voices in which India speaks. It spreads the traditional and cultural heritage of India within India and also introduces it to the whole world. It is Indian in sensibility, thought, feeling and emotion and experience but submits…
The Spiritual Sense of Alienation in Diasporic Life: Reading Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta and Jhumpa Lahiri
Dr. Amit Shankar Saha Kolkata, India. Exile, in its literal sense, is a physical condition but the sense of exile is not necessarily a manifestation of a dislocated existence. Even if there is a geographical displacement, the exilic condition in many cases is only superficially physical and fundamentally psychological and spiritual. The external exile either…