LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 20:3 March 2020
ISSN 1930-2940

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Cultural Identity of Individuals in Jhumpa Lahiri’s
The Namesake

N. Padmapriyadharshini, Ph.D. Research Scholar (Full Time)

Namesake
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https://www.amazon.com/Namesake-Novel-Jhumpa-Lahiri

Abstract

This paper focuses upon the cultural dislocation od Indian immigrants in USA. Jhumpa Lahiri presents the wisdom of creating identity as transnational. This paper shows the identity of diasporic nature, conflict of dual identity and cultural dislocation and multiculturalism.

Keywords: Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake, Identity, religion, cultural, immigration, human relationship.

The identity of the individual is shaped by religion, ethnicity and economic and social status and so on. Jhumpa Lahiri explores the concepts of cultural and personal relationships and identity through a variety of characters and explores the same in her first novel, The Namesake. The themes of first and second generations of Indian Diaspora aliens who feel the pain of experiences in daily life and in cultural areas are presented in this novel. The novel shows isolation as one of the burning problems of foreigners in the United States of America.

The novel explores the landscape of human relations by successfully analyzing the cross-cultural conflict between Indian and Western cultures, rather than the simplistic method of dealing with the complexities of immigrant experiences and background of geographical and emotional displacement. Characters’ Cultural Isolation isolation with radical personal solutions suggests that individual multiculturalism can solve a number of peaceful differences between cultural communities, including minorities. The novel The Namsake is a deeply moving family drama that features signature themes such as the diaspora experience.

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N. Padmapriyadharshini, Ph.D. Research Scholar (Full Time)
Department of English & Comparative Literature
Madurai Kamaraj University
Madurai – 625 021
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