LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:5 May 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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Diasporic Trauma in Unaccustomed Earth

Ling Yun

Accustomed Earth

Critically acclaimed for her novel and short fiction, Jhumpa Lahiri is an American author of Indian descent whose work focuses on challenges faced by Indian immigrants live in the United States. She explores how Indian Americans struggle to assimilate to American culture while trying to reconcile their strong Indian traditions and heritage. Lahiri’s writing easily transcends Indian American setting as she explores themes of human conditions like loneliness, alienation, love and self-realization.

Accustomed Earth is Jhumpa Lahiri’s second short story collection and her third book. Her first collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies (2000), won her the Pulitzer Prize and her second book, The Namesake (2003), was made into a film by Mira Nair in 2007 and a big commercial success. Many of the stories in Unaccustomed Earth first appear in The New Yorker. The title of the book is borrowed from a line in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Custom-House”, (“My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth”). By mentioning the epigraph, Lahiri seems to hint that the characters in the novel are transplanted people who have to adapt themselves in the unaccustomed earth in order to survive and prosper.

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Ling Yun
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School of Foreign Languages
Beijing Institute of Technology
Beijing
China 100081
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