Analysis Of Arranged Marriage And Jhumpa's Unaccustomed Earth

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The paper attempts to study psyche aspect of Diasporic woman by analysing the characters in the short stories collection of Chitra’s ‘Arranged Marriage’ and Jhumpa’s ‘Unaccustomed Earth’, Both are the Diasporic Indian Writers, who are well known in the field of writing. The psyche of the diasporic Indian woman can be seen vividly in the collection of short stories, ‘Arranged Marriage’ and ‘Unaccustomed Earth’. Chitra is known for the unique style of writing , which is quite different from other diasporic writers. Where, Jhumpa has her own endeavour. Where former takes the characters from different walks of life and Most of her writings has Woman as a Protagonist. But latter’s art work usually deals both with man and woman. Their art work …show more content…
Maybe she figured that even a foreign husband—a firangi —is better than no husband at all. At any rate, she’s planning to attend our wedding, which is to be this June, followed by a honeymoon in the south of France.”(Divakaruni 95)

Life of Jhumpa Lahiri :
Jhumpa was born on July 11, 1967 Lahiri was born in London. She is the daughter of Indian immigrants .They were from the state of west Bengal, India. Her family moved to the United States when she was two years old. Lahiri grew up at Rhode Island in Kingston, where her father Amar Lahiri works at University of Rhode Island , as a librarian. He is the basis for the protagonist in the closing and last story in her short story- collection, Interpreter of Maladies, The Third and Final Continent. Lahiri's mother wanted her children to grow up knowing their heritage,which was Bengali, and her family often visited relatives in Calcutta (Kolkata).She is an Indian American author. Lahiri's debut collection of short story, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna but

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