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This article aims to examine how Jhumpa Lahiri interweaves various sociopolitical factors from both the Indian-American diaspora and the American society in her novel Unaccustomed Earth in the Bakhtinian perspective, and to find out what are the big problems when Indian-Americans acculturize, and assimilate themselves to the American culture. Especially, it is intended to find out what are the cultural and ideological values, interfering their carefree choices, by describing what her heroes and heroines accept and reject from the Indian tradition and the American culture. Also, it is an attempt to illuminate the characteristics of Lahirihi`s narratology. In this novel, Lahiri`s heroes and heroines, as absolutely independent beings, decide all things about their lives while interacting with their ideological environment. They think over all verbal, ideological points, approaches, indicators, values in the American cultural context as well as the Indian diasporic context, and use them in forming their newly forming world-views. Here, Lahiri`s experiences, as one of Indian-Americans, enable her to extend the narrative of this novel and to provide her characters with all kinds of traditional and cultural factors. Resultingly, this narratology of Lahiri`s lets her lead her heroes and heroines` wider interactions with their environments, and so their understandings more persuasive. (Chosun University)