LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:12 December 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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The Diaspora:
From Enculturation to Acculturation in Jhumpa Lahiri’s
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Jyoti Rana, Ph.D. Research Scholar

Introduction: Disruption and Disintegration

‘Diaspora’ is a word which is derived from Greek, which means ‘to disperse’. In cultural theory, the term is used to cover territorial displacements which may be forced and voluntary immigration. ‘Diaspora’ thus lives in one country as a community but looks across time and space to another. The Diasporas and their descendents experience social, cultural, emotional, spatial displacements and dislocation.

According to Salman Rushdie, the immigrants suffer “a triple disruption, comprising the loss of roots both the linguistic and social dislocation”(279). So, in case of the immigrants, first they go through disruption and then they face discrimination in the country to which they migrate. They have to adjust or adapt to the culture of the adopted land where they meet with contempt and segregation. The migrants in fact have to face multi- faceted and multi dimensional problems and experiences and they are confronted with moral and ethical dilemmas. They migrated to these countries for a better and bright future and to spend a happy and luxurious life. They feel fascinated by the glamour of the alien culture and lured by the dazzling beauty of the adopted culture around which many fairy tales are woven but they are shocked by the racial discrimination when their dreams are shattered and they become nostalgic and suffer from native culture syndrome.

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Jyoti Rana, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of English and Foreign Languages
BPSMV
Khanpur Kalan
Sonipat, 131001
Haryana, India
jyotiranajyoti@gmail.com
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