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- Title
CULTURAL DILEMMAS, DISLOCATION AND CHANGING IDENTITIES IN JHUMPA LAHIRI'S THE NAMESAKE.
- Authors
Mangala, Mary. M.
- Abstract
The basic problem ofdiasporic writings is the feeling of dislocation without roots. The diasporans feel homeless and alienated in the foreign land. Dispersal of roots involves pain, alienation, identity crisis and other feelings to the accultured ones. The Indo-American diasporan Jhumpa Lahiri documents the trauma of the protagonist on different context. The immigrants are those who grow up in two worlds. Jhumpa Lahiri believes that for immigrants, the challenge of exile, the loneliness, the constant sense of alienations, the knowledge of and longing for a lost world are more explicit and distressing than for their children. The novel The Namesake (2003) is a finely wrought, deeply moving family drama that illuminates her signature themes; the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the tangled ties between generators which take the Ganguli family from their tradition bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. The novel is a narrative about the assimilation of an Indian Bengali Family from Calcutta, the Ganguli's, into America, over thirty years (from 1968-2000); the cultural dilemmas and emotional dislocation experienced by them and their American born children in different ways, the spatial, cultural and emotional dislocations suffered by them in their effort to settle "home" in the new land. New York Times writes about this novel, "This is a novel as affecting in its Chekhovian exploration of fathers and sons, parents and children as it is resonant in its exploration of what is acquired and lost by immigrants and their ch ildren in pursuit of the A merican dream."
- Subjects
NAMESAKE, The (Book); LAHIRI, Jhumpa, 1967-; IMMIGRANTS in literature; DIASPORA in literature; TRANSNATIONALISM in literature; MULTICULTURALISM in literature; CULTURAL fusion in literature
- Publication
Literary Endeavour, 2016, Vol 7, Issue 2, p47
- ISSN
0976-299X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism