“‘What the Son Wishes to Forget, the Grandson Wishes to Remember’: Intergenerational Issues in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake”. Nuevas investigaciones y perspectivas sobre literatura, cultura y pensamiento. Coord. Salud Adelaida Flores Borjabad, Inmaculada Respaldiza Salas y Romina Grana. Madrid: Dyckinson, 2023. 488-509
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2023-07-15Resumen
The aim of this paper is to explore the intergenerational conflicts that affect the Gangulis, an Indian family which migrated from India to the U.S. in Lahiri’s The Namesake. In my approach, I will adopt Marcus L. Hansen’s three-generation paradigm. In "The Namesake", Ashoke Ganguli and his wife Ashima clearly represent first-generation immigrants, while the character of their son, Gogol Ganguli, reflects traits which correspond, interchangeably, to members of the second generation and third generation. In my study, I offer a brief introduction to the author, a realist Indian-American writer cited by "The New Yorker" in 2000 as one of the twenty most important young American authors of the new century. I also address the critical response to the novel, before offering an interpretation of the complex existence of its main protagonist, Gogol Ganguli, in his struggle for assimilation, a struggle which leads him to inhabit the borderlands of American society, before returning to the cultu...
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Marcus L. Hansen
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Indian-American literature