Kiran Desai Jhumpa Lahiri Analysis

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Kiran Desai The intensity of the pain of separation articulated in diasporic narratives written during 70s and 80s of the previous century was genuine because the world then was not yet globalised and societies much less multicultural. Twenty-first century has witnessed the boom of narratives and fictions by those for whom categories of belonging and their present positions have been made unstable as a consequence of dislocation and displacement. Among such writers many are second generation diasporics who are born and brought up in alien culture and as such they have no in- depth familiarity with the concept of ‘home’ or ‘nation’. Their home should be where they have learnt to lisp in the language of their surrogate country, where they have adopted their mannerism. In spite of that, works of such writers construct narratives that speak of ‘homing desire’. Among such writers we have Kiran Desai and Jhumpa Lahiri. Kiran Desai was born on September 3, 1971 to Ashwin Desai and Anita Mazumdar Desai in …show more content…

The surface of the text conceals within itself subterranean issues implicit in the fate of society, nation and humanity. It has infinite layers of suggestions decoding the complexity born out of the web of globalization where humanity at large is struggling between the diverse shadows of economic growth and collapse of a stable value system leading society towards gloom and destruction generating an uncompromising loss at every stage of life. Kiran Desai celebrates the contemporary social order as the loss of nationalism, loss of relationship, loss of values and the loss of faith and the cumulative impact of this sense of loss is producing a generation that is groping in the dark with fractured and fragmented images where no definite perception of life can be accepted as the fulfilment of life’s

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