The Namesake - Summary Paper

Jhumpa Lahiris representations of the Indian American identicalness, by examining the female pillow slip Moushumi Mazoomdar, particularly focuses on the phases of reconstructive memory of her in relation to her conflicted identity. Moushumi constructs her identity based on her interpersonal relationships and tries fervently to overcome her crises with reinventing herself by taking authorization  of these relationships, an endeavor in which she struggles to make it in. She attempts to reconstruct her identity in various shipway. Either by means of separating from some(prenominal) the main ending and her ethnic culture, embracing a more risqué lifestyle as opposed to the conservative set of the Bengali women, or through settling down and thence pursuing an affair. The novel revolves most the theme of identity and the heathen/emotional dislocations suffered by them in their effort to settle bag  in the new hoidenish which is emphasized in a different manner among spate of two generations\nThe novel follows the lives of an Indian immigrant family and the ways in which identities argon explored and constructed/reconstructed by both the first-generation immigrants (Ashoke & Ashima) and stand by-generations (Gogol & Moushumi). The second generation characters argon illustrated as more dynamic. tour the first-generation characters face cultural and racial dissimilarities in the U.S. and find ways to enrich their lives in America, The second generation characters feel fifty-fifty more exilic, and their constructions of identity are constantly being challenged by both Indian inheritance and mainstream American cultural/ social standards. Observing these exiled second generations experiences of border-crossing and transcultural interactions, this paper illustrates the meaning of identicalness and reinvention pertaining to Moushumi in this diaspora novel.\nMoushumis is first introduced during Gogols natal day party. They meet as kids, besides s he did not take a liking to him, or any...