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Title of the Research Paper

The Changing Identity of Female

Diaspora: A Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri's

The Namesake

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JHUMPA LAHIRI

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Lahiri’s Writings 

Interpreter of Maladies The Namesake Unaccustomed Earthl

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Jhumpa Lahiri

Born in London 1967 to Bengali parents

Raised in New York

Based in Brooklyn, NYC

Winner of the 2000 Booker Prize forInterpreter of Maladies

Pens down the experiences of immigrants.

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Objectives of the Research Paper :

To explore the images of Indian Diaspora

Women in Lahiri‟s text The Namesake.

To discover whether contemporary diasporaDiscourse opposes the traditional

diaspora writings.

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  Hypothesis

Lahiri, in her writing, seems to subvert the

typical image of Indian diaspora women

as portrayed in the traditional Diaspora

discourse.

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Reasons for Immigration / Migration

 GlobalizationMultiethnic, multicultural & multiracial societies-

result of opportunities offered by the New

Horizons.

 Attraction for „Greener Pastures‟ the new land

offers.

Desire for the „liberal world‟ in the European

countries.Forced Immigration especially in case of Indian

women.

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  Contemporary Diaspora Writers

Bharati Mukherjee

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Bapsi Sidhawa

Kiran Desai

Jhumpa Lahiri etc.

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Theme of the traditional Diaspora

Discourse

Nostalgia

Feeling of Isolation

Identity Conflict

Failure / success in assimilation

Socio-cultural conflict

Language barrier

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Main Characters in “The Namesake”  

  Ashoke Ganguli & Ashima Ganguli

Gogol Ganguli Sonia Ganguli

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 Ashima‟s Life in The States 

Feels nostalgic, alone

faces language, socio-cultural barriers.

Gradually accepts the culture of „West‟. 

Gets acquainted with the surrounding /

people/ language of the „adopted land‟.

 Accepts a job at library, creates hernetwork of friends.

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Continued

Confronts to the sudden & sad demise of

 Ashoke.

 Ashima throughout her life wishes to

come back to her „Home Land‟. 

 After the death of Ashoke she has the

option open to come back to India.

However, Ashima chooses to shuffle in

between the States & India.

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View of a Critic

 “The Namesake is a documentary of

immigrants' lives who feel displaced,

alienated, and homesick, floating in an

anonymous island, far away from thehomeland”(Rana Sujata)????? 

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Conclusion

It seems that contemporary women

„willingly‟accepting the states of being

diaspora or acquiring the transnational

identity on their own.

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