Sen and Eliot are involved in an accident. All of this is eventually swept away when Mrs.Sen, her culture, her homesickness for India, and her feelings about being alone.
Sen and Eliot fall into a contented routine, a far cry from his own home life, which is as equally isolated as Mrs Sen's. She babysits Eliot, a local boy, to fill her days of silence.Sen has moved from India with her husband to live in a small university apartment where he works (112). Subaltern: the “other” or someone who is “not like us.” He/she is often devalued, subjugated, and faces prejudice and fear by dominant culture.Immigrant/Migrant: person who travels from one country to another Alienation: feeling as though one doesn't belong in the society they either live in or have migrated into often one is isolated from everyone including his/her native culture.Borders: these are both the physical and symbolic lines that divide us culturally, socially, etc.Migration: the either willful or forced exodus to another nation.Diaspora: the dispersion of a culture into other nations and societies.In a nutshell: she examines how it feels to be a foreigner in America.Finding community and longing for “home”.cultural alienation, or not feeling as though they “belong” in a new nation.“Maladies,” as a collection, focuses on characters that struggle with:.She focuses on the following themes in her writing: culture clashes, generational divides, the immigrant experience, and alienation.She has published 4 works (2 novels and 2 story collections): The Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland.Her first short story collection, The Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000.
Migration and Diaspora Finding Community English 1102 Spring 2014 The Interpreter of Maladies“Mrs.
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