Identity Crisis and Diasporic Experiences in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Short Story Collections

Abstract

The complexities and diversities of the present ‘human reality’ have compelled contemporary thinking to interrogate and deconstruct given concepts like ‘home’, ‘abroad’, ‘nation’, ‘culture’ and others in both worldly and textual contexts. This article aims at reading Jhumpa Lahiri’s short stories collections Interpreter of Maladies and Unaccustomed Earth as a representation of the diasporic predicament of Indians abroad- to be more specific, finding identity crisis and search for home in Indian Hindu Bengalis living in the USA.