LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 5 May 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies:
An Exploration of the Diasporic Realities

L. D. Easter Raj Densingh

Diaspora – Some Thoughts

Diaspora is a relatively new development in the post-colonial literature. It remains a favourite topic for investigative literary outputs. The term ‘diaspora’ is derived from the Greek meaning “to disperse”. Diaspora is also a popular term in current research as it captures various phenomena that are prevalent in various discourses devoted to current transnational globalization such as borders, migration, “illegal” immigration, repatriation, exile, refugees, multiculturalism, and hybridity. It signals an engagement with a matrix of diversity of cultures, languages, histories, peoples, places, time. The issues of resistance and protest among the indigenous settlers and diasporic communities of the commonwealth had been investigated under political, historical, anthropological, social microscopes by hordes of eminent luminaries. This paper attempts to look into how Jhumpa Lahiri handles these issues in her works.

Diaspora is a loaded term that brings to mind the various contested ideas and images. It can be a positive sight for the affirmation of the identity or conversely, a negative sight of fears of losing the identity. Robert Cohen describes diaspora as “the communities of people living together in one country who acknowledge that the old country- a nation often buried deep in language, religion, custom or folklore- always has some claim on their loyalty and emotions” (ix).

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L. D. Easter Raj Densingh
Assistant Professor of English
H.H. The Rajah’s College (Autonomous)
Pudukkottai-622 001
Tamilnadu
India
erajenglish@gmail.com
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