A Discourse on Diaspora: Exploring Identity and Alienation in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth

Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth (2008) is a collection of short stories that explores the experiences immigrants and their descendants in United States, particularly those Bengali origin. This research paper critically examines diasporic discourse identity alienation work. Through close analysis selected from Earth, this delves into themes cultural displacement, search for identity, feeling among characters. It also how these are intricately connected with characters' challenges they face navigating dual identities as or children foreign land. The argues portrayal reflects complexities nuances immigrant sense unbelonging, constant negotiation between old new worlds. Moreover, it highlights work engages tensions conflicts arise clash norms, longing home, struggle to reconcile one's past while embracing present.