‘Rootlessness and Sense of Loss in Jhumpa L...

‘Rootlessness and Sense of Loss in Jhumpa Lahiri’s the Namesake’

Author Name : Sanjana Shahnaj

ABSTRACT This paper emphases on the rootlessness and the sense of loss in Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘The Namesake’. Jhumpa Lahiri as a child has crisscrossed the borders from Indian England [where she was born] and then to America, It makes her both a migrant and Diaspora writer. The novel, ‘The Namesake’ depicts the finest kind of reference to Diaspora and how it affects the life of the immigrants. As the title shows ―’The Namesake’, is a novel about the cultural alienation, displacement, nostalgia, identity crisis and existential crisis of the life of first and second generation immigrants. The battle for the immigrant’s individuality and belongingness are well expressed by the author Jhumpa Lahiri through the characters and their dilemma. At the starting of the novel the issue of names and identity depicted by Jhumpa Lahiri reflected the life of the Indian Diaspora, who are struggling for their existence and also for their Identity. They build unhomely home in the overseas. This paper will show how the immigrants suffers from the rootlessness and will depicts the struggle they have to face to fit in.