Immigrant literature meets the demand of merging geographical and cultural borders. Jhumpa Lahiri provides a useful foundation for understanding the cultivation of hybrid identities and weaves stories around women who dislocate themselves from their country and their culture. Sometimes women utilise this immigrant occasion as a roadway to the much aspired freedom; sometimes it comes across as a slowly acquired American identity, and sometimes it is a means to create a new identity which is negotiated. Postcolonial pasts are translated and immigrant literature gives way to ethnic literature.
A. N. College, Patna, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya.
