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Immigrant Experiences in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and
Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

J. Blessing Kiruba, M.Phil. English



Abstract

Jhumpa Lahiri and Kiran Desai belong to the second-generation expatriate writers and deal with the manifestations and consequences of different aspects of diaspora. Jhumpa Lahiri is an Indian Americanauthor. The Namesake deals with the issues of adaptation, adjustment and accommodation in a world where the boundaries are thinned or often blurred. Her novel brings to the fore many of the issues that Indians, settled in the promising land of opportunities, face in America. The narratives revolve around the problems faced by a couple in a different country- the clash of cultures, the relationship between parents and children, the generation gap and identity crisis, etc. Kiran Desai being a modern expatriate Indian novelist had herself experienced displacement, dislocation and cultural clash. In her novel The Inheritance of Loss, she writes of the cultural hybridity of the post-colonial migrant and the expatriate condition of hybridity. This novel deals with Desai’s own situation of migration, expatiation and alienation from the mother country.

Keywords: Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss, alienation, cultural dilemma, identity crisis, nostalgia

Expressing Indian Consciousness

Generally Indian immigrant writers in America express Indian consciousness. It refers to the group of writers in America who write about Indian culture, tradition and social changes. Most of the Indian writers in America are expatriates and their experience on hand is almost authentic. This fact is luckily not affecting the quality of Indianness presented by them in their novels. The writers are varied in dimensions but writing under the label of Indian immigrant writers. Jhumpa Lahiri and Kiran Desai are both diasporic writers who have had to balance their identity between two countries. This experience is reflected in their writings and is thus, an inevitable byproduct of their common history. Both the writers Lahiri and Desai depict the immigrant experiences in The Namesake and The Inheritance of Loss.


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