Problems of Diaspora in South Asian Writings

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes the work of two renowned writers who know a thing or two concerning Diaspora and its effects. First, there is Jhumpa Lahiri, a Pulitzer Prize winner, who was born in London on 11 July 1967 of fudian (Calcuttan to be precise) parentage and grew up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. She now lives in New York with her husband and son. Her novel The Namesake concerns an fudian family that faces the cultural and generation clashes caused by their Diaspora in the U.S. Lahiri's visits to Calcutta with her parents was bound to have an effect on her writing due to the divided sense of identity and the clash of cultures and her writing materials concern her own diasporic experiences.