Category: The Namesake

The Ganaguli family lifestyle can be very different than others in America. Particularly, the Ratliff family. When Gogol meets Maxine, she invites him to dinner and mentions that she lives with her parents. Gogol asks if her parents mind, she laughs and responds with, Why on earth would they mind? (Lahiri 129). This displays the…

Globalization is a blessing and a curse. Multiple routes of transportation instruments can take a person half-way across the world; however, immigration is not as easy as simply relocating from a native country to a foreign country. In other words, immigration is easier said than done. Immigrants often struggle with balancing their identities, learning how…

Being a foreigner is a sort of life-long pregnancy-A Perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an on-going responsibility, only to discover that previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding like pregnancy being a foreigner Ashima believes, is something that elicit the same curiosity from…

Abstract The thematic study sheds light upon the issues based on the identities. The immigrants were lost their originality because of the adaptation of new culture in Alien Nations. The immigrants have suffered a lot and also longing for their original life style. So, the paper deals with the identity crisis in the novel Namesake.…

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee are novels about Asian immigrants who came to America in hopes of giving their Asian-American children a life better than what they had in their own countries. In The Namesake, the main characters are originally from India, but move to America where they have…

Postcolonialism is defined as the historical period or state of affairs representing the aftermath of Western colonialism, or that can be also used to describe the concurrent project to rethink the history and agency of people subordinated under various form of imperialism (Ivison, 2020). Postcolonialism shows about identity, cluture and nationality. The namesake by jhumpa…

A migrants ability to easily assimilate into a culture can be depended on whether or not it was voluntarily done, as they find it easier to discard their past and create a new identity than those who were strained to do so. Both Jhumpa Lahiris bildungsroman novel, The Namesake and Kent MacCarter and Ali Lemers…

Lahiris works has a deep insight into womens problems and dilemmas, with a realistic portrait of contemporary women. The female protagonists in her novels are in constant search for the meaning and value of their life. Lahiri explains the cross-cultural experiences of dislocated women and the condition of belonging in the maze of cultural plurality.…

The movie entitled The Namesake, is an Indian-American movie made in 2006 directed by Mira Nair, and based on the original book written by Jhumpa Lahiri. The story shows how culture and inheritance are influencing people’s identity in society, especially when this one is different from their original one. The novel, through the Ganguli family,…

This study tries to examine the two main characters of the novel The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri including Ashima and Gogol; in order to do that, the researcher uses the ideas of postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha, especially the concept of hybridity. The study tries to see the way the two main characters see and experience…