Discerning the Chronotope of Diaspora Narratives: A Study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth

Author(s)	Dr. Athira Prakash
Country	India
Abstract	Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin’s term ‘Chronotope’ is an aesthetic way of presenting human beings in relation to their temporal and spatial world. It is known as the space- time frame in which a literary argument develops. Immigrants, living in diaspora, are actually living in the third space where they attempt to create a new identity and a new culture for themselves, separate and different from both the culture of the homeland and that of the host country. Being a writer from the third space, who is aware of the politics of space and displacement, Lahiri’s fictional corpus looks into the modern world that is racing rapidly to transform itself into a global city. Yet, her works are not blind to the world of heterogeneous societies that do not wish to leave aside their historical particulars which give them uniqueness. This paper is an attempt to discern the chronotope in the diasporic narrative of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth by artistically assimilating the structure of the temporal and spatial relationships which form an integral part of any diaspora narrative.
Keywords	Chronotope, Diaspora, Assimilation, Cultural Identity
Field	Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In	Volume 7, Issue 4, July-August 2025
Published On	2025-07-17
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i04.50867
Short DOI	https://doi.org/g9tz2c

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