Predicament of Women In The Cross-Cultural Encounters: A Comparative Study of The Selected Works of Jhumpa Lahiri And Shauna Singh Baldwin

<p>The literature by the Diasporic writers is a type of self-analysis a sort of therapy for survival in this Darwinian global village in which surrounding forces determine the creative output. The predicament and problems of women due to cross- cultural encounters in immigration have remained an issue of discussion for the South Asian Diasporic women writers. The predicament of women portrayed by Diasporic writers may be studied from different points of view such as the cultural feministic political psychological biological sociological economical geographical and so on. A comparative study of the predicament of the women protagonists in immigration as presented in the novels and short stories may lead to the findings of the common and diverse problems faced by women in the alien countries which may be concluded with a collective Diasporic consciousness. The present research work entitled as PREDICAMENT OF WOMEN IN THE CROSS- CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS : A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE SELECTED WORKS OF JHUMPA LAHIRI AND SHAUNA SINGH BALDWIN undertakes a comparative analysis from the cultural and feministic points of view of the predicament of women protagonists in immigration presented in the novels and short story collections: The Namesake and Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri: and The Tiger Claw and English Lessons and Other Stories by Shauna Singh Baldwin.</p>