Cultural Alienation of Indian Diaspora in Lahiri’s “Unaccustomed Earth”
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This research, fashioned after Jhumpa Lahiri's “Unaccustomed Earth,” is an endeavor to
expose mediocrities, generational gap, and the searching analysis of Indian traditions, marriage
and social life of immigrant Bengali-Americans living as an inborded labores in foreign land.
This work examines Lahiri's immigrant characters and their experiences as second generation of
Bengali immigrants in America in the light of postcolonial critical insights. In other words, this
work is an effort to clarify the research question if the life in exile is the unbearable rift forced
between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home. Each and every
attempt in this paper resonates with Lahiri's discovery of alienated self in her characters in the
title story “Unaccustomed Earth.”