DIASPORA IMAGINATION AND EXPERIENCE SHORT STORIES INTERPRETER OF MALADIES AND UNACCUSTOMED EARTH

Stories of Jumpha Lahiri are the evidence of immigrant lives, their displeasures, disenchantment, struggles, dreams, integrations, etc. Immigrant experience, as well as identity, really is without question the elements of Interpreter of Maladies which have been explored possibly the most by researchers. In the stories in Unaccustomed Earth have been commended for presenting different aspects of the Bengali diasporic sensibility. The eight stories in the collection show the quest for identity in the diasporic situation. They scrutinize numerous identities as well as a dilemma in the lives of immigrants. This article will study the short story about the immigrants those who have to live their homeland by the Indian-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri, two of those three works, Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and Unaccustomed Earth (2008), are short story collections and are some of the very well known ones.