The Emigrants' Psychological Combat In Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake

Abstract

The Combat is reflected in almost all the post- colonial Indian English Literature. People around the nook and cranny of the world, even other than being in diasporic atmosphere are encountering combat in their day today routine, so when it comes to the case of diasporics it is twice sometimes thrice the problems reflected in ordinary people's lives. The combat occurs due to the result of changes and hence the psychological combats are. These combats are innate and they are the basic process of our mind which happens when individuals perceive their thoughts, views, attitudes, goals and interests contrasted by another individual and social groups. Jhumpa Lahiri being an Indian expatriate having her roots in West Bengal expresses the pains of expatriates with her experience through her characters. She is a Pulitzer Prize winner, who portrays her internal conflicts through her characters in her works which becomes the integral part of her fiction. In The Namesake, she portrays inner combats of the character which is more or less similar to her own character with regard to her experience in the foreign land. The confusions, fears, the quest for the identity internally, and the struggles outwardly is also portrayed through the characters. This paper attempts to get to know the combats and conflicts psychologically, which are being faced by all generation immigrants.