Dislocated Identities in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland
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Central Department of English Kirtipur, Kathmandu
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Jhumpa Lahiri, portrays the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, hybridity, diaspora, isolaton, alienation, the tangled ties between generations in her novel The Lowland. Her primary characters are Indian immigrants in America. The novel captures the true emotions and feelings of immigrants. The Lowland takes the Mittal family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. The novel, through characters like Gauri, Bela, Subhash, Udayan attempts to portray the sufferings of the immigrants in the modern societies. All the characters struggle with their cultural identity and the forces of the modernization while trying to maintain their emotional connection to one another.