Human Geography: Semiotics of Landscape in Jhumpa Lahiri's Narratives

Through Jhumpa Lahiri's immigrant stories, we are exposed to unending visual constructions which remind us that geography speaks loud in the art world. This paper seeks to address this point besides revealing the specificity of geographical texture of immigrant communities through studying signs and symbols. It is indicated that cultural signs make human landscape in New England the site of struggle for exclusive inscription of ideological values or the locus for dialog and appropriation of meaning(s) in the space. Diverse cultural landmarks which Indian migrants leave on the soil of America picture the landscape with metaphoric dimensions.