The Issues of Immigrants A Comparative Study of Select Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee Jhumpa Lahiri And Kiran Desai

Abstract

The world literature is heavily influenced by the diaspora and the Indian newlinediaspora, as the second-largest diaspora, draws attention from multidisciplinary newlineacademics. Indian Diaspora writers have contributed immensely to postmodern newlineliterature. Indian Diaspora literature has gained a prominent status and became a topic newlineof investigation in literary studies. It portrays the expatriate sensibility and life newlineexperiences of immigrants in an alien land. Indian Diaspora writers gained popularity newlinewith their sensitive depiction of the issues of Diaspora in their writings. Present newlineresearch work focuses on The Issues of Immigrants: A Comparative Study of Select newlineFiction of Bharati Mukherjee, Jhumpa Lahiri and Kiran Desai . Bharati Mukherjee, newlineJhumpa Lahiri, and Kiran Desai in their works deal with the universal aspects of newlinehuman existence, racism, ethnicity, socio-political and cultural problems of newlineimmigrants, the interrelationship between East and West culture, and challenges of newlinemulticultural aspects of immigrants. newlineThere is a constant interchange of flashes of nostalgia, homesickness, newlineghettoization, identity crisis, cultural conflict, issues of legal and illegal immigration, newlinehumiliation, isolation, and alienation in the lives of immigrants represented by these newlinenovelists in the select novels. At a profound level, they demonstrate all the aspects of newlineDiaspora. The trials, tribulations, journey of immigration, settlement, and the struggle newlineto uphold the cultural values of the motherland carve out their identity in the fresh, newlineand ostensibly stifling environment of immigrants, make them representative of the newlineDiaspora community. newlineThe immigrants seek to synthesize cultural traditions with the modern values newlineof the host land. They attempt to establish an equibalance between the culture of their newlineiii newlinemotherland and the culture of the host land. They are assimilating the new culture and newlineadopting themselves with a new identity. newlineThe thesis is distinctive in the sense that it makes a venturing effort to bring newlinethe immigrants journey from their m