A STUDY OF CULTURAL ASSIMILATION IN JHUMPA LAHIRI'S UNACCUSTOMED EARTH

Abstract

This paper examines the cultural translation in "Unaccustomed Earth," a collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri. In addition, it examines the complexities of family life and resentment. It also provides room for how the cultural translation affected their life. This study also focuses on immigration issues and how expatriates adapt to living in a foreign country. Some characters are unable to adapt to the new culture. They fail somewhere and get despondent. This paper examines the lives of such characters as well. Longing occupies a unique place in diasporic existence, and this collection of short stories also explores the intricate network of family relationships. In this immigrant lifestyle, the family relationship is considerably different. As a result of the effect of both the host culture and the native culture, human interactions will lose their significance. The immigrants' lives were unpredictable due to their sense of being 'in-between' This collection of short stories focuses on the protagonists' contrasting emotional experiences as a result of migration. Through the assertion of international identity, the storylines grow.