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Diasporic Consciousness: A study of longing and alienation of migrants in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and The Lowland

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: This paper aims at exploring Jhumpa Lahiri’s novels The Namesake and The Lowland to make it visible that how the sense of longing and alienation can create different world and therefore, conflicting frame of mind for homeland. This paper expresses the fundamental ideology of immigrants. The cultural conflict between the east and the west is making situation more complicating to adapt the new social set up and assimilating the life style of the west. Lahiri’s works expresses the sense of being uprooted from motherland and always-showing quest for identity and belongingness.

Source: RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary

DOI: 10.31305/rrijm.2024.v09.n11.003

Authors: Nancy, Suman Rani

Institution: CT University

Language: English

Topic: Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4405368669

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