FICTIONAL TECHNIQUES OF JHUMPA LAHIRI IN HER SHORT FICTION

Many Indian diasporic writers focus their narratives on the people out of their home (India) to a foreign land (particularly to America and England) and the ordeals and trials that they experience and their endurance in surviving various odds. Jhumpa Lahiri is one such eminent contemporary Indian diasporic writer whose narratives are replete with metaphors of pain and predicaments of immigrants. Her stories reflect a 'double vision' of 'yearning backward' and 'looking forward'. This work attempts to find and evaluate the techniques that Lahiri uses in the narration of the stories in her short fiction Interpreter of Maladies and Unaccustomed Earth