Diasporic Sensibility in the Works of Jhumpa Lahiri

Abstract

Jhumpa Lahiri, an American author known for her short stories, novels and essays in English and more recently, in Italian. She was born in London, the daughter of Indian immigrants from the Indian state of Best Bengal. Her debut collection of short-stories Interpreter of Maladies (1999), and her first novel, The Namesake (2003) and Unaccustomed Earth (2008) express the theme of cross-culture, migration, issues of diasporic community on the foreign land and search of identity. All her works depict the above-mentioned issues faced by Indians on reaching on the foreign land. Since she was herself a migrant from India to America; she therefore mentions all that what she sees with her open eyes.