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Exploring the Concept of the Others with Reference to Amitav Ghosh' The Shadow Lines and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake

  • Unique Paper ID: 179089
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 12
  • PageNo: 4974-4980
  • Abstract:
  • The concept of "Others" is a central theme of both The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh. The paper looks at how the authors show the experience of being different. It pays attention to how the main characters grapple with identity, sense of belonging, and displacement. Lahiri portrays Gogol's struggle with his identity as a second-generation immigrant, caught between his Bengali roots and his American way of life which creates a sense of cultural dislocation, and alienation. Ghosh looks at how intersections of personal and political history make the borders and boundaries blur, complicating the notion of "Others" through the characters Tridib and the narrator. This paper examines two stories and illustrates how both writers rethink the usual ideas about identity. They point out that being seen as "Others" comes not just from geographical separation but also from psychological fragmentation and historical consciousness. This research aims at how Lahiri and Ghosh talk about "Others" to show cultural dislocation and identity issues in a global setting. The approach is to compare the two novels while viewing them simultaneously and examining the way the characters develop, the structure of the storey and the main themes. It is found that both writers show otherness as originating from cultural and geographical variations as well as from one’s personal memories and history.
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  • ISSN: 2349-6002
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 12
  • PageNo: 4974-4980

Exploring the Concept of the Others with Reference to Amitav Ghosh' The Shadow Lines and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake

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