American Research Journal of English and Literature

The aspect of diasporic literature has got the ingrained meanings through the identity crisis. The shifting of place usually creates the notable changes in a man’s scenario of origin. Then he/she get entered into the diverse cultural periphery. Fluid identity make a person’s identity become complex in the age of globalization. In the 21st century, this diasporic literature has almost seen in most of the modern writer’s writing pieces. Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. In her famous novel The Namesake, the themes of alienation, loneliness, rootlessness, homelessness and quest for identity became prominent and prevail over the other themes of this novel. Jhumpa Lahiri is a remarkable voice of Indian diaspora in America. She has decorated the Story of her novel according to her own life’s diasporic experiences. There in the novel Jhumpa Lahiri has instilled the concept of dismantle culture between the two countries such as India and America. The amalgamation of the two cultures made Gogol’s life became unfavourable and thus he has started to live in different social milieus. He tried to internalize both the Indian and American cultures but at last failed to recognize his own self as he was busy to adjust with the blending cultures. Jhumpa Lahiri took the issue of Gogol’s expatriation as a life of contestation and negotiations. Gogol’s nebulous name made his identity almost perished. This paper will explore Gogol’s life’s two different cultural backgrounds, different religious matters and the way of leading life in America as an immigrant.