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VOL. 7, ISSUE 4 (2021)
Reflection of diasporic sensibility in Jhumpa Lahiri's “the lowland”
Authors
Saroj Kanta Bhuyan
Abstract
The present paper aims to explore the new approach to diaspora as Lahiri puts more emphasis on unfolding a variety of experience, a state of mind and sense of identity that is based more on relocation than dislocation. Diaspora consciousness or sensibility is a particular kind of awareness said to be generated among present day transnational communities. Lahiri has convincingly shown that immigrant experience and diasporic sensibility is not simple and straight forward but it is disturbing, contradictory and in a state flux. The pursuit for identity, rootlessness, reminiscence, sense of solitude and hostility, cultural adaption, globalism, multiculturalism are several imperative facets of diasporic sensibility which are reflected in The Lowland. In this age of globalization, it comes a long way from earlier implications of violence and moves towards third space. Lahiri's second generation characters reflect the sensibility of new Hyper Mobile, Techno Savoy diaspora. The novel also focuses on as it unfolds multigenerational story that revolves around the individual choices and decisions and the role of destiny. It portrays the 21st century globalised, multicultural and transnational diasporic culture. This culture is hybrid, heterogeneous and a plural one.
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Saroj Kanta Bhuyan "Reflection of diasporic sensibility in Jhumpa Lahiri's “the lowland” ". International Journal of English Research, Vol 7, Issue 4, 2021, Pages 01-04
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