The Namesake
THE NAMESAKE REVIEW
TRANSNATIONAL MIGRANTS AND THE HYBRID CULTURAL PHENOMENA
PREFACE
The namesake is a touching story narrating the life of an Indian couple that migrated to the United States during the last 25 years of the 20th century. I was inspired by the profound and warm touch of how the author deliberately telling story. The beautiful language and the thoughtful phrases the author used in weaving the efforts of the immigrants, the happiness they try to build in their new living environment and also the inevitable sadness that instantly approached, have ensured me that this story is worth stressing crucial notions on my final paper.
My exchange student friend, an Indian girl from University of California, Berkeley, Kumar Kristy, …show more content…
Once, they spent 8 months of vacation there. It could be seen that “Migrant incorporation into a new land and transnational connection to a homeland or to dispersed networks of family, compatriots, or persons who share a religious or ethnic identity can occur a the same time and reinforce one another” ( Levitt and Glick Schiller 2004:284). Ashima’s way of life clearly depicts the sense of living one’s life that incorporate daily activities, routines, and institutions located in both in a destination country and transnationally. However, Ashima only could make a little connection with her family in Calcutta, through letters. She often imagines herself being with her big family and friends, but her dream was eventually faded away as she knows that her life already began in America. She has duties to raise up her children. One day, Ashima could adjust herself to the new “home” and that feeling of returning to her homeland permanently was diminished. Instead of that, she merely thinks of a long holiday in Calcutta, only for her children to spend time with their Bengali family. Ashima’s way of becoming could be seen, for
TRANSNATIONAL MIGRANTS AND THE HYBRID CULTURAL PHENOMENA
PREFACE
The namesake is a touching story narrating the life of an Indian couple that migrated to the United States during the last 25 years of the 20th century. I was inspired by the profound and warm touch of how the author deliberately telling story. The beautiful language and the thoughtful phrases the author used in weaving the efforts of the immigrants, the happiness they try to build in their new living environment and also the inevitable sadness that instantly approached, have ensured me that this story is worth stressing crucial notions on my final paper.
My exchange student friend, an Indian girl from University of California, Berkeley, Kumar Kristy, …show more content…
Once, they spent 8 months of vacation there. It could be seen that “Migrant incorporation into a new land and transnational connection to a homeland or to dispersed networks of family, compatriots, or persons who share a religious or ethnic identity can occur a the same time and reinforce one another” ( Levitt and Glick Schiller 2004:284). Ashima’s way of life clearly depicts the sense of living one’s life that incorporate daily activities, routines, and institutions located in both in a destination country and transnationally. However, Ashima only could make a little connection with her family in Calcutta, through letters. She often imagines herself being with her big family and friends, but her dream was eventually faded away as she knows that her life already began in America. She has duties to raise up her children. One day, Ashima could adjust herself to the new “home” and that feeling of returning to her homeland permanently was diminished. Instead of that, she merely thinks of a long holiday in Calcutta, only for her children to spend time with their Bengali family. Ashima’s way of becoming could be seen, for