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


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

Keywords:

Indian literature, Cultural Identity, Migrations

Abstract

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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Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Namesake. Boston Houghton Mifflin Company. 2003

Review of The Namesake by Aditya Sinha” The Malady of Naming” in Hindustan Times, September 28, 2003

Said, Edward, “The World, The Text and The Critic” Cambridge Harvard U.P.,1993

Said, Edward. Introduction. Culture and Imperialism. London: Vintage, 1994.

Kaur, Tejinder. “Cultural Dilemmas and Displacements of Immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake.” Studies on Women Writers in English, Ed. Mohit K. Ray and Rama Kundu. Vol. 4. New Delhi: Atlantic, 2005.

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Published

2018-04-30

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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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