Diasporic Allenation: A Postcolonial Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland
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This thesis attempts to explore diasporic alienation from the postcolonial perspective in Jhumpa Lahari’s novel The Lowland. It tries to present how the work is full up the theme of diasporic alienation. Along with the central character, all the members of the same family are getting tragedy and living self exile life in United States. Their minds vacillate between two contradictory cultures existing in that time. It attempts to analyze the different strands of alienation to make the work more comprehensive and to show the nature of postcolonial world. The origin of the characters and its literary importance has been projected through this paper along with the different meanings of diasporic alienation having a slight difference in their meaning. The concept of diaspora, alienation, and somehow postcolonialism have been mentioned in this research paper to carry out the theme of diasporic alienation. All the presented characters face several unexpected challenges and cultural clash in the pursuing of harmonious life in the diasporic land.