A Study On Immigrant Experiences Of Mrs. Sen And Ashima Ganguly In Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter Of Maladies And The Namesake

V. Aparna Sri, Dr. S. Akash

Abstract


Lahiri sets her books between Bengal and America. She connects her ties to her motherland through her works. Being a diasporic writer, she works on the themes such as identity crisis, rootlessness, nostalgia, alienation and frustration. The diaspora finds adapting to the new land difficult, especially during their early migration days. Women who migrate to America after marriage find themselves doubly isolated in their newly adopted country. They feel alienated and isolated, missing their home. This paper studies Jhumpa Lahiri’s Mrs Sen in Interpreter of Maladies and Ashima Ganguly in The Namesake, who struggle to adapt to America.


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Jhumpa Lahiri, Mrs Sen, Ashima, Food as cultural signifier and nostalgia.

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