The Limit of Hybridity: Emergent Identities in the Transnational Context in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter

Kattel, Pawan

The Limit of Hybridity: Emergent Identities in the Transnational Context in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter

Publisher

Faculty of English

Abstract

jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter dramatize the situations of diaspora, who grapple with their hybridized and spilt character while searching for fixed identities, they also celebrate their multiple identifies in a more dynamic way.By staging contradictory impulse of diasporic characters in their novel, Lahiriand Mukherjee challenge the traditionally conceived notion of migration and transnational migration as primarily caused by compulsive facto