The Concepts Of Diaspora And Transnationalism By Jhumpa Lahiri

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Past decades witnessed the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism have served as prominent research lenses through which to view the aftermath of international migration and the shifting of state borders across populations. The research has focused on delineating the genesis and reproduction of transnational social formations, as well as the particular macro-societal contexts in which these cross-border social formations have operated, such as ‘globalisation’ and ‘multiculturalism’. Although both terms refer to cross-border processes, diaspora has been often used to denote religious or national groups living outside an (imagined) homeland, whereas transnationalism is often used both more narrowly – to refer to migrants’ durable

Both of her parents were born and raised in India. Her father is a librarian and mother is a professor of Bengali Language in USA. She took to writing in an early age with the school newspaper. She graduated from Barnard College in English Literature. Lahiri has gained M.A (English, M.F.A in Creative Writing, M.A in Comparative Literature and PhD in Renaissance Studies from Boston University. Lahiri taught Creative Writing at Boston University and Rhode Island School of Design. Lahiri is perhaps the first Indian to have won Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000, America’s highest literary honour, equivalent of a Nobel

Here again Lahiri displays her deft touch for the perfect detail -- the fleeting moment, the turn of phrase -- that opens whole worlds of emotion. The self- assurance and intellectual adequacy with which Lahiri handles her subject matter is peculiar to her alone. Lahiri has particularly focused on the of ‘Alienation’ which results in loss of identity turns a person into a pathetic figure, his voice being an echo, his life a quotation, his soul and brain and his free spirit a slave to things. The rootlessness of Indian English novelists tend to threaten their creative talents and force their work to follow a more or less fixed pattern giving at times the impression of superficiality and stereotypedness. Her stories reveal more sensitive issues of first and second generation immigrants. Lahiri