Multiculturalism in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth

Authors

  • B. Sreekanth Reddy Research Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anantapur

Keywords:

Multiculturalism, Solitude, Immigrants, Inner World

Abstract

In the galaxy of the feminist voices in literature, Jhumpa Lahiri has carved a niche for her innovative style. She is a miniaturist, a micro cosmologist helping one to understand the world of multiculturalism. Every character in her fiction is pulled in various directions. Parents pull characters backward in time, children pull them forward, America pulls them to West, and India pulls them to East. The need to marry pulls them outward, the need for solitude pulls them inward. Unaccustomed Earth is a narrative of the cultural pull visible in the life of the second and the third world immigrants. This paper presents the inner world experiences of the immigrants and makes an emotional investigation of the various aspects of multiculturalism.

References

Lahiri, Jhumpa. Unaccustomed Earth. New Delhi: Random House, 2008.

Patel, Vibhuti. An interview with Jhumpa Lahiri. Newsweek International, 20/9/1999. //www.swanet.org/books/writing/patel_lahiri.html.

Said, Edward. Reflections on Exile. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2001.

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Published

01.10.2013

How to Cite

B. Sreekanth Reddy. (2013). Multiculturalism in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth. Journal of Teaching and Research in English Literature, 5(2), 20–23. Retrieved from https://journals.eltai.in/index.php/jtrel/article/view/JTREL050205

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2013): October

Section

Research Articles

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