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The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri: A Thematic Study
Masters Dissertation

Santosh B. Matanavar


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Abstract

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri, a British descent Indian-American writer, is the first literary work that came before my sight when I began to work for the dissertation work for the partial fulfillment of my Master’s degree in English. Because of my regular reading of magazines, I came to know about this novel. Then I went through one of the author’s interviews in the internet and was able to know the research she had done to write the story about the Naxalite movement.

Basically, this novel throws light on the familial matters like home, a couple, children, their education and achievements, their fields of interests like chemistry and physics, personal and political life, indigenous and imported ideologies they follow, pre and post marriage life and finally the two marriages which lead the family to a situation like a barren land, without love. Apart from this, the novel portrays the cultural, social, traditional as well as modern and developmental aspects of life in its journey with the reader.

Moreover, from its middle pages it brings the readers to the view of Rhode Island, an American seashore city. There we can come to know how the academic universities’ activities and the process take place. Then onwards we come across several elements of the diasporic writings such as nostalgia, quest for identity, struggle for existence, schizophrenia, nomadic terror, homelessness, double identity, and others. Along with them, there is a deep concern for love and responsibility. These all are the points/themes/factors which mattered to me to take The Lowland for my dissertation work.

The Dissertation is divided into 5 chapters, followeed by a Bibliography.

Chapter-I
Introduction

Chapter-II
Review of Indian Diasporic Literature

Chapter-III
About The Author of The Novel Under Study

Chapter-IV
Summary and Themes of The Lowland

The Lowland as a Saga of Family
The Lowland as a Diasporic Novel
The Lowland as a Novel of Movement
Suspense in The Lowland

Chapter-V
Conclusion

Bibliography

I am immensely grateful to my teacher and supervisor Dr. LINGARAJ S. PATIL

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