Diasporic Predicament of Binary Identity & Cultural Struggle in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

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Published: Apr 30, 2018
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Indian literature, Cultural Identity, Migrations

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K. Balaji Sundharam
Assistant Professor of English Agurchand Manmull Jain College (Shift-II) (Affiliated to the University Madras) Minambakkam, India

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This research paper studies on Indian roots and American life or to be more exact, at any rate on account of The Namesake, Calcutta from one perspective, and Cambridge and New York on the other, give peruses diverse standards of life among individuals speaking to unmistakable societies and perspectives.

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K. Balaji Sundharam. “Diasporic Predicament of Binary Identity & Cultural Struggle in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake”. The Creative Launcher, vol. 3, no. 1, Apr. 2018, pp. 447-52, https://www.thecreativelauncher.com/index.php/tcl/article/view/916.
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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2018): April, 2018
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