South Asian Female Diaspora in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies

Abstract

This research focuses on the study of Indian female diaspora and their sufferingsin the United in States Jhumpa Lahiri’s first debut work Interpreter of Maladies. It basically examines diasporic condition of female characters, who belong to India. All the characters in Lahiri’s stories areshaped by adverse impacts of diaspora. The researcher focuses on the women characters who are forced to migrate to an alien land with their husbands in search of better life. In other words, the work is an effort to clarify the research question that how life of female become complex in foreign land which is totally different from the land where they are brought up. It also traces out the condition whether they are satisfied with their lives. Each and every attempt in this paper resonates with Lahiri's discovery of alienated self in Interpreter of Maladies. Key Words: diaspora, alienation, psychology, trauma, guilt