The subject matter of this study is not to explore the much researched concepts of ‘Diaspora’ ‘hybridity’ and ‘identity crisis’ from traditional colonial discourse, but to engage in more recent and emerging trends of globalization, shared economy and glocalization. In the words of sociologist Ronald Robertson, ‘glocalization means the simultaneity-the co-presence of both universalizing and particularizing tendencies’. The integration process of ‘marginalized’ has started before the demise of the empire but in present days context the ‘alienated other’ depicted in diasporic fiction is caught ‘in-between’ the promising world of opportunities and the blissful past. This diasporic crisis of identity is not the result of encounter between the
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Globalization is happening, whether we like it or not. Ideally, in this globalized world, close connections between people of diverse origins will reduce mutual misunderstanding, hostility, and conflict. As Rachel Trousdale notes in her discussion of transnational fiction, people with a cosmopolitan orientation conceive of their communities "based not on the location of their roots but on a shared willingness to reach beyond them" (194).
3. DISCUSSION In analyzing Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fictional world, my focus will remain on the issues raised above, particularly, how the notions of hybridity and identity co-exist and reach beyond the conventional boundaries of nationhood. In her short story collection, “Interpreter of Maladies”, Jhumpa Lahiri portrays various characters that either belongs to what we may call as ‘mixed cultures’ placed either in rural India or promising world of America. They undergo a series of social, economical and psychological upheavals and in the process reveal their ‘self’ and ‘the connections with the society’ in a daring
Globalization is happening, whether we like it or not. Ideally, in this globalized world, close connections between people of diverse origins will reduce mutual misunderstanding, hostility, and conflict. As Rachel Trousdale notes in her discussion of transnational fiction, people with a cosmopolitan orientation conceive of their communities "based not on the location of their roots but on a shared willingness to reach beyond them" (194).
3. DISCUSSION In analyzing Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fictional world, my focus will remain on the issues raised above, particularly, how the notions of hybridity and identity co-exist and reach beyond the conventional boundaries of nationhood. In her short story collection, “Interpreter of Maladies”, Jhumpa Lahiri portrays various characters that either belongs to what we may call as ‘mixed cultures’ placed either in rural India or promising world of America. They undergo a series of social, economical and psychological upheavals and in the process reveal their ‘self’ and ‘the connections with the society’ in a daring