Volume 7 : Issue 1 (2020)

The Depiction of the Cultural Negotiation between the First and The Second generations in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

In the era of globalization, no culture has remained in the state of purity because of immigration movements across the borders of a nation. This paper addresses the cultural clash when East meets West and the conflict arises between immigrant’s native culture and the dominating western culture. It also discusses how the clash between the two cultures of immigrants influences them and causes them the feeling of being torn between two worlds and then how they lead to cultural negotiation to cope with the cultural tensions and the dual loss. With this cultural blending, they begin to feel alienation, loneliness, homelessness, identity crisis and pains of exile. They face the cultural clash and identity dilemma that causes them psychological oppression. On the one hand, they gusto to stick to their own cultural heritage and values while on the other hand, they gradually imbibe the cultural ways of the host country, too. The present paper is an effort to understand the conflicts between the first and the second generations of Indian immigrants as narrated in The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. She traces the conflict between the two generations that leads to the clash between the Eastern culture at home and the Western culture outside home.

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