CULTURAL DILEMMA: A READING OF JHUMPA LAHIRI’S A TEMPORARY MATTER

The migrants live in-between two cultures- the native culture and the adopted one- in the alien land. The Indian immigrants expand their social relations in a culturally cosmopolitan identity. The immigrant writers or diasporic writers migrate to an alien land to live there happily but in reality they struggle a lot for their survival. They are struggling to live in-between two cultures which give them the feeling of nostalgia and rootlessness. Thus, the South Asian Diaspora writers draw their attention to cultural conflicts, assimilation, East-West encounter, displacement, fragmentation and so on.