Gauri as a Subaltern Female Character in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland

Abstract

This research project tries to make an attempt to explore Gauri as a Subaltern Female Character searching for an identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's novel The Lowland by applying Subaltern perspective . In the novel Gauri and other subaltern figures try to raise their voice in order to establish their identity but they have to lose many other thing during their search. In order to establish one's own identity, the cultural setting also plays pivotal role. The setting of the novel is in India and America as the migration is another striking issues in the field of subaltern study. Gauri like subaltern figure has to lose many familial and other relational bonds in the name of securing own identity. While analyzing their attempt to raise their voice in India and America, Gauri the subaltern figure has to fall in in-between space, from where they can return nowhere. As the main crux of this study the subaltern characters' dislocation is helping them to change their behavior. This research project is significant in order to see how the subaltern figures are ready to sacrifice every thing sometimes life too in order to get an identity but their voice is always dominated.