鐘芭‧拉希莉的兩部短篇小說集描述了第一代和第二代印度移民在美國的離散文化身份構建議題。但是這兩代人所面臨的離散分身問題不同，對於第一代移民而言，重要的是怎麼建立和原有印度文化的連結並且於此同時努力適應美國的在地文化；對於第二代移民來說，他們面對離散身份的困擾，這個困擾一方面是他們無法認同自己的印度文化，另一方面又沒有辦法很好地被美國文化所接受。本論文探究第二代移民怎麼去面對和解決這個身份困擾的問題。因此在第一章中，分析了《醫生的翻譯員》中第一代移民的身份議題，以做對比凸顯第二代移民所面對的身份問題。在第二章和第三章當中，分別討論了跨族群婚姻和遷移對於《陌生的土地》中第二代移民在解決他們的離散身份困擾時的意義。

The thesis focuses on the diasporic identity issues in Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story collection Unaccustomed Earth. Criticism tends to mix the different diasporic identity problems that respectively confront the first-generation immigrants in Lahiri’s first work The Interpreter of Maladies and the second-generation Bengali American protagonists in Unaccustomed Earth. However, these two generation immigrants face distinct diasporic experiences; thus it is necessary to distinguish the issues conveyed in Unaccustomed Earth from those in The Interpreter of Maladies. The thesis argues that the second-generation protagonists in Unaccustomed Earth grapple with their diasporic identity dilemma that they are stuck between Bengali and American cultures by cross-ethnic marriage and moving elsewhere. In order to better perceive the issues in Unaccustomed Earth, Chapter One explores what diasporic identity issues the first-generation immigrants face and how they handle them in The Interpreter of Maladies. Chapter Two and Chapter Three respectively examine how cross-ethnic marriage and moving elsewhere help the second-generation Bengali American protagonists position their identities in Unaccustomed Earth. The thesis concludes that readers are inspired to notice the significance and possibility of transforming an individual’s cultural identity in the cosmopolitan era.

Introduction                                                                                         1
Chapter One 
First-Generation Immigrants’ Diasporic Identity in Interpreter of Maladies                                                                                              7
Chapter Two 
Multi-ethnic Marriages in “Hell-Heaven” and “A Choice of Accommodations”                                                                             23
Chapter Three 
Moving Elsewhere in “Unaccustomed Earth” and “Going Ashore”40
Conclusion                                                                                        58
Works Cited                                                                                       61

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