Working Paper No. 18 Struggle to Acculturate in the Namesake: A Comment on Jhumpa Lahiri ’s Work as Diaspora Literature! Mahesh Bharatkumar Bhatt GJ!jarat Arts &Science College‚ Ellisbridge‚ Ahmedabad Abstract The aim of the paper is to bringforth the wqy in which Jhllmpa Lahiri‚ a Plllitzer prize winner novelist explores the dilemma of name and immigrant ’s sense of identity and belongingness in the novel The Namesake. The paper discllsses the term ’diaspora: and their role in the present
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ALIENATION THEME IN ROHINTON MISTRY’S TALES FROM FIROZSHA BAAG Rohinton Mistry is a Parsi Zoroastrian and as a person whose ancestors were forced into exile by the Islamic conquest of Iran‚ he was in Diaspora even in India. Like other Parsi writers‚ his writing is informed by this experience of double displacement as a recurrent theme in his literary works. Rohinton’s historical situation involves construction of new identity in the nation to which he has migrated and a complex relationship with
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187 MEDIA‚ DIASPORA AND GENDER IDENTITY IN NATIONALISTIC SPACES: NEGOTIATING GENDER IN DIASPORIC CULTURAL AND LITERARY SPACES. Baby Pushpa Sinha* Lalan Kishore Singh** This paper endeavors to study gender identity in the framework of the ideology of nationalism and its projections in media and literary texts. It analyses how masculinity and nationalism have always been parallel discourses in its exclusion or subordination of feminine roles in the constructions of the nation whether through its media
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Why India? Why IANS? With India’s growing importance in international strategic and economic thinking‚ news about the country is becoming more critical to the world. India alone accounts for over a billion of South Asia’s 1.3 billion people. The sheer mass creates news. Changes in the global balance of power‚ India’s economic rise‚ and South Asia’s continuing political and social ferment‚ are attracting worldwide attention. In addition‚ Pakistan‚ Afghanistan‚ Sri Lanka‚ Bangladesh‚ Nepal‚ Bhutan
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ISOLATION AND COMMUNITY IN SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS BY JHUMPA LAHIRI “As is frequently the case with immigrants in general‚ the Diaspora is also keen on taking pride- some self respect and dignity- in the culture and tradition of the original homeland. This frequently takes the form of some kind of ‘national’ or civilization appreciation of being an Indian in origin.” Amartya Sen In the Argumentative Indian. While Indian writers have been making a significant
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Garret Hernandez Prof. Michelle Gonzales English 32 February 12‚ 2013 Gender Roles in Transition The bond of marriage and the ideals of a family are always changing. Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies describes several short stories presenting generalizations of Indian Culture as situated in India‚ as well as in America. “This Blessed House” tells the story of a newly wed Indian American couple as they settle into their new home in America. “Sexy” tells the story of an American woman
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Book reviews: Literature of the Indian Diaspora edited by O.P. Dwivedi. Vivek Kumar Dwivedi. Transnational Literature Vol. 4 no. 2‚ May 2012. http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/home.html O.P. Dwivedi‚ Literature of the Indian Diaspora (Pencraft International‚ 2011) Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Applying a theoretical framework
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Stephen Gill ’s Immigrant : A Study In Diasporic Consciousness Nilofar Akhtar The phenomena of Diaspora and expatriation are by all means an old one. However‚ its impact in the present times is larger and deeper. It has become a contemporary social trait and also‚ a literary genre. The growing incidence of the Diaspora has given place to dislocation‚ disintegration‚ dispossession and disbelongingness. The experience of expatriation not only gradually disconnects the individual from his
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Caught between Two Worlds: The Search for Cultural Identity in Lahiri’s The Namesake Titien Diah Soelistyarini Abstract The question of identity is always a difficult one for those living in one culture‚ yet belonging to another. This question frequently lingers in the mind of most immigrants‚ especially the second generations who were born in a country other than their parents’ motherland. They feel culturally displaced as they are simultaneously living in two cultures. On the one hand‚ they
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Submitted to Dr. Shailendra sir Submitted by Rajesh Kumar Understanding Dalit Diaspora: A Review Introduction In this article mainly focused on Dalit diaspora and what is the problems face Dalit people in host country. Vivek Kumar divided of diaspora in to two part first part is ‘old’ and second part is ‘new’ diaspora. In the old diaspora comprises indentured laborers and assisted laborers who were taken by the colonial power and the contractors to different countries and second part is new Dalit
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