THE FEATURES OF INDIAN DIASPORA AND THEIR IDENTITY IN JUMPHA LAHIRI’S SHORT STORY “UNACCUSTOMED EARTH”

Tri Sugiarto, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia

 10.21831/diksi.v28i1.31674

Abstract


(Title: The Features of Indian Diaspora and Their Identity in Jumpha Lahiri’s Short Story “Unaccustomed Earth”). America is a multicultural country. It results from the immigration of various ethnic backgrounds from Asia, Africa, and Europe since the beginning of the 19th century. As one of the ethnic communities in the US, the Indian diaspora encounters many experiences in their life. This article explores the feature and identity of Indian diaspora represented in Lahiri's “Unaccustomed Earth”. It aims to reveal some of the Indian diaspora’s features in the US and concludes their current cultural identity through analytical reading of the short story. This is a qualitative content analysis. It applies a theory of diaspora to dig the underlying information from the data. The study shows that Indian diaspora experience several features that include having trouble at their first interaction in the country, recalling the tradition of the homeland, associating with the people from the same ethnic background, and processing the idea of going home to the homeland. In the short story, it is found that the characters embody a hybrid identity.

 

Keywords: Indian, diaspora, identity, hybrid, America


Keywords


Indian, diaspora, identity, hybrid, America

Full Text:

PDF

References


Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (2006). The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. In B. Ashcroft, G. Griffiths, & H. Tiffin (Eds.), The PostColonial Studies Reader. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.2307/3201254

Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H. (2007). Post-colonial Studies Key Concepts (2nd Editio). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.

Bagoria, M. (2020). Tracing the Historical Migration of Indians to the United States. Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 70(May), 894–904. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44147737

Cohen, R. (1997). Global diasporas; An Introduction. University of Washington Press.

Herrero, F. G., & Huntington, S. P. (2004). Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity. Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana. https://doi.org/10.2307/4531363

Zong, J., & Batalova, J. (2017). Indian immigrants in the united states. In Migrationpolicy.Org (pp. 1–12). https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/indian-immigrants-united-states




DOI: https://doi.org/10.21831/diksi.v28i1.31674

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2020 Diksi



 

Jurnal Diksi is published by Faculty of Languages, Arts, and Culture, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://journal.uny.ac.id/index.php/diksi

 

Our Journal has been Indexed by:

  

  

   

Diksi Journal is published by the Faculty of Languages, Arts, and Culture Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta in collaboration with Himpunan Sarjana Kesusasteraan Indonesia (HISKI)

Supervised by:


 
Translator
 
View My Stats