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The Namesake By Jhumpa Lahiri: Book Review

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Introduction: The present times showcase abundant increase in psychological narratives. These narratives signpost complicated scenario of human life, complex human relationships and the intricacies of human psychology. In the era of Post globalization the means of transportation have increased, sources of income boosted up; and people have become more vocal regarding their emotions and feelings. Women are seen more vocal about their pleasures, agonies, angst, stress and trauma. In past women were subjugated in the parochial society which is evident even today to certain extent. In India, the patriarchal cryptograph puts women under certain restrictions, but as the women get out of the geographical borders of India they begin to breathe free …show more content…

Her first novel, The Namesake epitomizes the psychological trauma of identity crisis, the conflicts between couples,individual, familial and cultural stress. Lahiri explores the trauma and rehabilitation in the focal characters, Gogol and Moushumi. The novel depicts the trauma at cultural confrontations, migration, sex, love, escapism, mobility, rebel, extramarital relationship, nomadism and mongrelism in major characters. Further, Lahiri’s latest novel The Lowland (2013) which was nominated for the Booker Prize, 2013, chronicles the psychological trauma at personal, social and collective levels. The novel is fore grounded on Naxalism in Calcutta wherein Udayan, the brother of Subhash and husband of Gauri is encountered by the police. Lahiri showcases the trauma at different altitudes by making the widow and pregnant Gauri marrying Subhash and migrating to America. Similarly, Bela, the daughter of Gauri and Udayan voices the trauma of an unmarried pregnant woman who explores her femininity in her nomadism and quest for identity. The novel epitomizes emotional trauma at variant levels ranging from migration, rebel, sex, mobility, identity, escapism, nostalgia and lesbianism. Lahiri is an ‘interpreter of maladies’ of the subjects in ‘the lowland’ who feel trapped in ‘unaccustomed earth’ and struggle for ‘the

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