DIASPORIC PLIGHT OF ASHIMA IN THE NAMESAKE
Keywords:
Culture, Diaspora, Identity, Lahiri, Namesake.Abstract
With the advancement in the industrialization, the capital of world has been started accumulating in certain regions of the world. As a result of it, there is an uneven distribution of human resources: most of the regions are under-developed and a few have an advantage over rest of the world. It is obvious that most of the people have an affinity to live in the developed regions. It becomes the major cause of migration. People who are migrated would achieve what they had wanted but adjustment in a region where the culture is too different to adopt, becomes their lifelong issue. They yearn for the native culture that is why they tend to live near the people from same background. They physically are better position than before but their mental state is the conflict of two cultures. Jhumpa Lahiri, in her debut novel The Namesake elaborates the above mentioned conflict which affects three generations. Most of the previous research has been focused on the issues of second generation diaspora. A few of them deal with the feminist perspectives of Ashima but the present paper will directly focus on the diasporic issues of Ashima.
References
•Anderson, Benedict, (1987). Imagined Communities. London, Verso.
•Bhabha, Homi K. (1994). The Location of Culture. London, Routledge.
•Brah, Avatar. (1997). Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities. London, Routledge.
•Brodsky, Joseph. (2011). On Grief and Reason: Essays. London, Penguin.
•Chaudhari, Sandeep Roy. (2007). A Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of the second Generation. 2007 Seattle Reads: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. Retrieved May 31, 2015, from https://www.spl.org/Documents/audiences/adults/SeattleReads/2007-Namesake_Toolbox.pdf
•Das, Nigamananda. (Ed.). (2012). Two Interviews with Jhumpa Lahiri. Jhumpa Lahiri: Critical Perspectives. New Delhi, Pencraft.
•Lahiri, Jhumpa. (2003). The Namesake. Boston, Houghton Mifflin. Kindle file.
•Kureishi, Hanif. (1986). My Beautiful Laundrette and The Rainbow Sign. London, Faber.
•McLeod, John. (2000). Beginning Postcolonialism. New York, Manchester UP.
•Rushdie, Salman. (1991). Imaginary Homelands. London, Granta.
•Said, Edward. (1994). Culture and Imperialism. Vintage, London.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright Notice
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher. The Editors reserve the right to edit or otherwise alter all contributions, but authors will receive proofs for approval before publication.
Copyrights for articles published in World Scholars journals are retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. The journal/publisher is not responsible for subsequent uses of the work. It is the author's responsibility to bring an infringement action if so desired by the author.
