The Global Journal of Literary Studies | Volume 1, Issue 1 I May 2015 ISSN : 2395 - 4817 The Global Journal of Literary Studies I May 2015 I Vol. 1, Issue 1 I ISSN : 2395 4817 EXECUTIVE BOARD OF EDITORS Dr. Mitul Trivedi Prof. Piyush Joshi President H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research, Gujarat, The Global Association of English Studies INDIA. Dr. Paula Greathouse Prof. Shefali Bakshi Prof. Karen Andresa Dr M Saravanapava Iyer Tennessee Technological Amity University, Lucknow Santorum University of Jaffna Univesity, Tennessee, UNITED Campus, University de Santa Cruz do Sul Jaffna, SRI LANKA STATES OF AMERICA Uttar Pradesh, INDIA Rio Grande do Sul, BRAZIL Dr. Rajendrasinh Jadeja Prof. Sulabha Natraj Dr. Julie Ciancio Former Director, Prof. Ivana Grabar Professor and Head, Waymade California State University, H M Patel Institute of English University North, College of Education, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Training and Research Varaždin, CROATIA Gujarat, INDIA Gujarat, INDIA Dr. Momtazur Rahman Dr. Bahram Moghaddas Prof. Amrendra K. Sharma International University of Dr. Ipshita Hajra Sasmal Khazar Institute of Higher Dhofar University Business Agriculture and University of Hyderabad Education, Salalah, Technology, Dhaka, Hyderabad, INDIA. Mazandaran, IRAN. SULTANATE OF OMAN BANGLADESH Prof. Ashok Sachdeva Prof. Buroshiva Dasgupta Prof. Syed Md Golam Faruk Devi Ahilya University West Bengal University of Technology, West King Khalid University Indore, INDIA Bengal, INDIA Assir, SAUDI ARABIA The Global Journal of Literary Studies | Volume 1, Issue 1 I May 2015 ISSN : 2395 - 4817 The Global Journal of Literary Studies I May 2015 I Vol. 1, Issue 1 I ISSN : 2395 4817 Contents... Negotiating with Diaspora: Some Female Characters in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth 01 Mafruha Ferdous, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Northern University, BANGLADESH. Musarrat Shameem, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Jagannath University, Dhaka, BANGLADESH. Conflation of History and Fiction: Re-visiting Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children 02 Dr. Anita Sharma, Associate Professor, H.O.D, Govt. college Theog, Shimla (H.P),INDIA. Travel Literature in Indian Writings: A Comparative Survey 03 Prof. Ashok Sachdeva, Professor, Devi Ahilya University, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA. Spirituality in the Poetry of Rabindranath Tagore and Makarand Dave : A Comparative Study 04 Dr. Dushyant Nimavat, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Anand, Gujarat, INDIA. Radhika D. Pandya, Research Scholar, C. U. Shah University, Surendranagar, Gujarat, INDIA. Angst in Mahesh Dattani’s Play Where Did I Leave My Purdah? 05 Dr. Manish Sharma (Pandey), Professor of English, MJB Government Girls PG College, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA. Nature as the Greatest Gash-Healer : A Close Study of the Short Stories of Ruskin Bond Yatharth N.Vaidya, Lecturer in English, Government Polytechnic, 06 Rajkot, Gujarat, INDIA. Dr R. J. Raval, Lecturer in English, Government Polytechnic College, Rajkot, Gujarat,INDIA. Towards Hope and Fulfillment : A Comparative Study of T S Eliot’s The Waste Land and Niranjan Bhagat’s The Coral Island 07 Vaseem G Qureshi, Assistant Professor, Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, Chandkheda, Ahmedabad. Gujarat, INDIA. University Library, Tirupati 08 A Poem by Dr. K.V.Raghupath, Department of English Studies, Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, INDIA. Struggle for Dalit Women Recognition: A Critical Study of Bama’s Karukku 09 Paramita Bhaduli, Research Scholar, Department of English, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, INDIA. Shifting Personalities in the Fiction of Women of the Indian Diaspora Prof. Sujal Pathak, Assistant professor, A.A. Patel Commerce College, Kadi sarva vishwavidyalaya, Gandhinagar, 10 Gujarat, INDIA. Dr. Vikas Raval, Assistant Professor, Gujarat Power Engineering and Research Institute, Mehsana, Gujarat, INDIA. Expatriate Sensibility in Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 11 Pushpa D. Dixit, Assistant Professor, Swami Sahajanand College of Commerce & Management, M.K.Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, INDIA. Fantasy Fiction in Indian English – A rewritten genre 12 Ms. Prerna Somani, English Language and Literature, Institute of Language Studies and Applied Social Sciences, Vallabh Vidynagar. Anand, Gujarat, INDIA. The Portrayal of Social Aspects in the Novel and Movie Parineeta : A Comparative Study 13 Ms Vinayba Jadeja, Assistant Professor, ILT B.Ed. College, Jamnagar. Gujarat,INDIA. ‘Disgrace’: A Study of Pluralistic, Fractured Identities 14 Dr Deepa Vanjani, Head, Department of Languages, PMB Gujarati Science College, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA. R. K. Narayan's Approach to the Emancipation of Women in India : A Comprehensive Study of Narayan's Novels 15 Sayantina Dutta, Research Scholar, Department of English Language and Literature, The University of Calcutta, West Bengal, INDIA. Cross- Culture Synthesis in Manju Kapur's The Immigrant 16 Nilam Hasmukh Gajjar, Senior Research Fellow, Carolx Teachers' University, Ahmedabad. Gujarat, INDIA. The Global Journal of Literary Studies | Volume 1, Issue 1 I May 2015 ISSN : 2395 - 4817 The Global Journal of Literary Studies I May 2015 I Vol. 1, Issue 1 I ISSN : 2395 4817 Feminine Identity in the Short Stories of Alice Munro and Shashi Deshpande 17 Mr. Tushar Jadhav, Research Scholar, School of Language, Devi Ahilya University, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA. The Dilemma of Living in Between: A Study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake 18 Mr. Shabir A. Parmar, Assistant Professor, Department of English, V.P.& R.P.T.P. Science College, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, INDIA. A Comic Hero in the Comedies of Shakespeare and Bhasa: A Comparative Study 19 Dr R.J.Raval, Lecturer in Englis, Government Polytechnic College, Rajkot, Gujarat,INDIA. Ms Mansi M. Agravat, Research Scholar, Rai University, Gujarat, INDIA. I was born in April 20 A Poem by Chirag Dhandhukiya, Assistant Professor in English, C N Arts & B D Commerce College, Kadi, Gujarat, INDIA. The Pre-Colonial and Colonial Legacy of Modern Indian Theatre 21 Mr. Haresh Kakde, Research Scholar, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, INDIA . The Global Journal of Literary Studies | Volume 1, Issue 1 I May 2015 ISSN : 2395 - 4817 The Global Journal of Literary Studies I May 2015 I Vol. 1, Issue 1 I ISSN : 2395 4817 Negotiating with Diaspora: Some Female Characters in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth Mafruha Ferdous Assistant Professor Department of English Northern University BANGLADESH. Musarrat Shameem Assistant Professor Department of English Jagannath University Dhaka, BANGLADESH. Abstract Now- a- days diaspora becomes a highlighted issue when people become parts of the global world. This article seeks to analyze selected short stories of the latest short story collection Unaccustomed Earth by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. In Unaccustomed Earth, Lahiri explores the theme of diaspora with her typical poetic style and immense emotional involvement. Lahiri’s stories are mostly dominated by an omnipresent sense of loss or insecurity. Portraying the lives and struggles of second-generation diasporian women characters, Unaccustomed Earth challenges their ability to negotiate with new environment. They encounter a paradoxical nature, the situation in which they have to adapt to the new environment but on the other side they still maintain their old habits. By focusing on these women’s roles, this paper depicts how these female characters try to negotiate with the new world while at the same time they maintain the Indian values .The present article discusses the poignant dilemma faced by these women characters. The Global Journal of Literary Studies | Volume 1, Issue 1 I May 2015 ISSN : 2395 - 4817 Introduction The present paper views diaspora as a complicated state of socio-psychological condition of some Indian immigrant families in the United States whose cause of immigration is based on intellectual and other sorts of development. This cause implies that the immigrant people under observation in the paper do not simply associate the notion of diaspora with negative aspects like displacement, alienation, and identity crisis; rather their voluntary act of migration is also related to prosperity and ambition. It is interesting to note that whereas in most stories of Unaccustomed Earth the diasporic men are pursuing their dream of prosperity and ambition the women who accompany them, mostly as wives, have no personal motive in this act of migration. In fact, these women characters face the problem of adaptation more intensely than their male counterparts do because their (the women’s) migration to the foreign land is not self-motivated or voluntary, rather imposed. This is why we have chosen some female characters, instead of focusing on both the sexes from the stories, as women are facing a harder challenge in negotiating with diaspora. Again, there is a clear difference between the first and second-generation women characters in their attitude towards the living condition in the host country. This issue deserves a closer study in the sense that though we see the second-generation women are naturally more capable in the process of adaptation; their conformity to traditions is also more than negligible. This ambivalence in the second-generation woman immigrants is a part of the process of adaptation that makes them Americanized in many ways, although retaining some basic Indian sensibilities within their psychological sphere. The term diaspora has