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This paper looks into the predicament of name and sense of identity and belongingness of the characters of the Indian origin and immigrants in the USA in The Namesake, the novel written by Jhumpa Lahiri. The Namesake makes it the best kind of ready reference to classify Diaspora as the term...
For the purpose I have chosen the works of Jhumpa Lahiri and Margaret Wilson; Lahiri is a post colonial American writer of Indian origin while Wilson is a colonial American writer who had lived in India and also written on India. The thrust of the paper is to contrast their multicultural ...
This paper sets out to look into the dilemma of name and sense of identify and belongingness of the characters as immigrants in the Namesake, the novel written by Jhumpa Lahiri. Jhumpa Lahiri is the child of Indian Immigrants and she migrates from England (where she was born) to America. ...
Much has been said and written about the nature of identity construction in diasporic communities. This paper explores this area through the otherwise ignored category of food as a symbol through which members of a diasporic community relate to concepts of nationality, ethnicity and ...
Woman is the central figure in the works of Jhumpa Lahiri. Primarily, the works of Jhumpa Lahiri show their concern with the social and cultural injustice meted out to women who are marginalized and exploited. She has written about the Indian women, the problem faced by them in the male-...
Literary works, written particularly by second generation diasporic writers,concentrate more on synchronic dimension than on diachronic one. It is quite naturalthat they approach the narratives from comparative perspectives, both from the points of view of cultures and generations. These immigrant writers...