The Fictional World of Jhumpa Lahiri: A Study in Merging Identities

This book examines Jhumpa Lahiri as an author interested in non- gender-specific issues such as immigration identity alienation and diaspora addressed in the domain of postcolonial theory by highlighting marginality alienation and nostalgia as the three chief features in her writings testifying to a sensibility that remains compulsively subsumed in her family’s ethnic heritage and the lives of South Asian immigrants in the United States. The study explains how her search for the self and national identity merged in two cultures and two nations perforce crystallize the “metaphors of her own creative consciousness.