to analyse the various issues faced by the immigrants as portrayed in Lahiri’s novel first novel The Namesake. The story of the novel is set in United States, Calcutta hovers in the background. . It is out of her experiences of the bizarre identity crisis on the part of those who have remained as immigrants and those who were traumatized by homelessness, that the contents of the novel The Namesake were derived. Jhumpa Lahiri admits that as the novel conveys the experiences of alienation of the migrants
An immigrant is one who comes to live in a foreign country or a region. While diaspora is collective term for people from same origin, the term immigrant is used collectively for all those come to live in a common destination country or region and settle there forever. For example people who come and settle in USA from other countries constitute immigrant population of USA. Frequently diaspora or immigrants may acquire the citizenship of the host country, leading to change in their nationality
The concept of Identity is an intriguing component in social life and it is even dealt in cultural discourse. Itis even most mentioned or most discoursed theme in Literature. What is identity in its semantic meaning and what does it disclosein pragmatic interpretations? According to Oxford dictionary the semantic meaning of ‘identity’ is that ‘the fact of being who or what a person or thing is’. In pragmatic sense the meaning of ‘identity has many conventional elucidations. The world is satiated
29 Martin Joshua D. Payumo November 3,2014 7-G Ms. Val Reading Book Report I. Introduction Title – The five people you meet in heaven Author – Mitch Albom Publication Details – Copyright 2003 Mitch Albom. All rights reserved. Publisher – Broadway Music Corporation administered by Sony/ATV music Publishing, #8 Music Square, Nashville, TN 37203. Printed in the USA with the address at Hyperion, #77 West 66th. Street, NY, NY 10023-6298 International Mass Marker – ISBN 1-4013-9803-0