Eastern Women in Jhumpa Lahiri's Treatment of Bibi Haldar, Mrs. Sen's, and A Real Durwan

Abstract

This Paper applies Gayatri Spivak's critique of Western feminism on three of Jhumpa Lahiri's short stories and the female figures of these stories; moreover their complicated conditions are discussed in detail. It is discussed how the cultural and social differences between East and West has put the third world women out of the feminist theories. In Lahiri's stories the sisterhood which is the core of the female communication in the East has been depicted so delicately and in the following pages the researcher has dug into the deeper layers of this culture.