期刊名称：Journal of Post-Colonial Cultures & Societies
印刷版ISSN：1948-1845
电子版ISSN：1948-1853
出版年度：2010
卷号：1
期号：3&4
出版社：Wright State University
摘要：Diasporic writing follows its own rules and themes ¨C as such it constitutes a peculiar subgenre of its own within the wider field of Indian fiction in English. As a matter of fact, we should be able to understand what the term diaspora means to an expatriate writer. A review by Brinda Bose on India Today assessing Unaccustomed Earth, the recent collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, may give us a few clues to the question. The reviewer speaks of Bengali-American fiction and emphasises the ¨Dcheerless¡¬ atmosphere deployed in these stories, whose characters seem to be unhappily, or even tragically, entrapped in-between two disjointed words
