Deciphering the Diasporic Consciousness: Transnational and Translocal Diaspora in The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Reshma Ganesh; Aparna T V

Deciphering the Diasporic Consciousness: Transnational and Translocal Diaspora in The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

Author(s)	Dr. Reshma Ganesh, Ms. Aparna T V
Country	India
Abstract	In the post-modern world, which is governed by globalized economy, tracing the definition of the concept of locality becomes futile. The concept of place and to understand it as a territory becomes difficult due to the juxtaposition of the borders and boundaries. The physical and geographical borders are reassessed during migration, leading to the formation of multiple social groups within one border. A key text in the field of Diaspora studies, Avtar Brah’s Cartographies of Diaspora (1996), which is a theoretical investigation of the economic, political and cultural dimensions of contemporary migration, specifically about South Asian communities. Brah describes Diaspora as “conceptual mapping which defies the search for originary absolutes, or genuine and authentic manifestations of a stable, pre-given, unchanging identity” (Brah, 1996: 196). Diaspora space is therefore a site of translocation, a space information, which reveals the ephemeral nature of boundaries and includes all human beings in that location, since “Diasporic space is the intersectionality of diaspora, border, and dis/location […] where multiple subject positions are juxtaposed, contested, proclaimed or disavowed”. In this context, the concept of transnationalism and Translocality arises. The papr aims to explore the concepts of Transnational and Translocal Diasporic consciousness in the text, The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. Lahiri’s short story collection portrays the South Asian American transnational identities which are constructed due to the changing diasporic consciousness of the old and the new diasporas.
Keywords	Diasporic consciousness, Translocal Diaspora, Space, Communities
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On	2026-07-18

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