Category: The Namesake

Frustaration or Hybridity: A Comparison of the Main Characters in the Novel The Namesake 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.…

Postcolonialism In The Novel The Namesake By Jhumpa Lahiri 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…

Migrants Ability Effects In The Namesake And Joyful Strains 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…

Examining Identity: The Product Of Colonialism Hegemony In The Book The Namesake And Film Dirty Pretty Things 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…

American And Bengali Cultures In The Namesake 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…

Identity Crisis In Jhumpa Lahiris The Namesake 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 Concept Of Culture Lost In The Novels The Namesake And Native Speaker 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…

Postcolonialism In The Novel The Namesake By Jhumpa Lahiri 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…

Migrants Ability Effects In The Namesake And Joyful Strains 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…

Frustaration or Hybridity: A Comparison of the Main Characters in the Novel The Namesake 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.…