Portraying identity crisis in the novel “The namesake” by jumpa lahiri Garghi S.1, Dr. Saranya U.S.2 1Assistant Professor, Department of English, School of Humanities & Sciences, SASTRA University, Thanjavur 2Assistant Professor, Department of English, School of Humanities & Sciences, SASTRA University, Thanjavur Online published on 2 September, 2019. Abstract The redundant boundary of the Diaspora is moving very fast in the globalization. The encountering of the problem regarding Diaspora belong to two different cultural background that which meets but still the issue of equation is a problem of the country that which remains as a problem is a problem. When the bias is developed then the expectation and the reservation are more and more in growth. The persons like Homi K Baba, Anita Desai, and Kamala Markendaya to some extent accept the discriminatory compromise. Identity crises is a fact that no one does not want to change or suffer but they expect the other to change by all means in undergoing various cultural, religious and dislocation of land from one to another. The focus of this paper lies in the complete effort on understanding the conflict of the Indian diasporians and losing their identity in their society. In this novel it is Ashima as a child of Bengal resembles the proof of immigrant where the ongoing quest of identity crises arises. She has been sandwiched between the birth of her country and has adopted the ideologies of alien country. The main proposition of this paper is to put in nutshell the perpetual dilemma faced by the second generation as to protest against their identity with their children conflicting realities and also their culture. The paper reveals that in the novel how the parents talk about the shared history and the children are stressed in critical pacts of deep depression. Top Keywords Diaspora, Identity Crises, Conflict, Depression, Dislocation. Top |