Thakur Ankita Project In English I 13 October 2014 Diasporic Narrative in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake Abstract Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake predominantly involves the collision between the two cultures American and Bengali. It not only determines the clash between the different generations but also vivid ideologies affecting the lives of middle class family and especially the life of Gogol. Jhumpa Lahiri tries her best to portray the lifestyle of a very simple Bengali Family residing in abroad
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Place for the Wicked The real world chooses to hide the wickedness of mankind‚ while the world of fiction chooses to highlight it. In the stories “The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol‚ “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez‚ and “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates‚ especially highlight the time the horrible aspects of man. Each one highlighting the corruption of man in their own unique way. The social hierarchy is a key part to the wickedness of
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spatial/domestic construction of immigrant subjectivity (in Lahiri and/or Chehade); the role of trauma in the immigrant narratives (in Lahiri and/or Chehade); the place of literature in the immigrant narrative (in Lahiri; Ashoke’s obsession with Nikolai Gogol); intersections between Gogol’s The Overcoat and Lahiri’s The Namesake (common themes‚ the question of “finding oneself‚” finding one’s subjectivity); the construction of the immigrant‚ racial “Other” in the immigrant narratives (in Lahiri
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Initial Explication In the short story “The Overcoat” by Nikolai Gogol‚ the ability of the affluent to indulge in material comfort leads to their neglect of the suffering lower-class‚ leaving the poor to fend for themselves in a world filled with crime and environmental discomfort. On page 932‚ Gogol’s imagery of various aspects of the night out in St. Petersburg conveys both Akaky’s harsh‚ cold‚ and desolate reality as well as the luxurious lifestyle of the well-to-do. In order to travel to the
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Essay – Power Struggle Between Stalin and Trotsky In 1921‚ Lenin’s health was delicate and fragile; he started suffering a series of strokes that in 1924 finally ended his life. In 1922 he “retired” from any business that had to do with the government. During this time he became more aware of the party’s weaknesses‚ and started to be conscious about the threat that Stalin supposed for not only the Bolsheviks‚ but for Russia’s future. Lenin wrote his “Letter to the Party Congress” in 1922‚ and
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Family background: Stanislavski had a privileged youth‚ growing up in one of the richest families in Russia‚ the Alekseyevs.[4] He was born Constantin Sergeyevich Alexeyev – "Stanislavski" was a stage name that he adopted in 1884 in order to keep his performance activities secret from his parents.[5] The prospect of becoming a professional actor was taboo for someone of his social class; actors had an even lower social status in Russia than in the rest of Europe‚ having only recently been serfs and
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and the Russian authors his grandfather told him to read. In 1961‚ as he was taking the train from Calcutta to Jamshedpur to get the books his grandfather was giving him‚ the train crashed and he almost died. He was reading a Russian author name Nikolai Gogol when the train derailed; he was found by workers and survived only because he had the page in his hand. He decided to go to engineering school in the U.S. against his family’s wishes. The next morning the baby is born and Ashima and Ashok
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it could not have happened otherwise‚ and that to give him any other name was quite out of the question.” - Nikolai Gogol. This is the epigraph for the Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake‚ for the quote foreshadows a lot of what the novel contains and helps us understand the difference between what we’re being told and what we’re‚ seeing. Jhumpa Lahiri chooses to start with a quote from Nikolai Gogol for it connects to both The Overcoat and The Namesake for names having more meaning than a label.
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Indian-American immigrants. As a young man‚ his father‚ Ashoke‚ nearly died in a train accident‚ breaking multiple bones in his lower body and temporarily developing paralysis. Before it occurred‚ he was reading an anthology of stories by the Russian author Nikolai Gogol‚ and later‚ when rescue teams arrived‚ Ashoke was able to alert them of his presence by dropping a crumpled page of the collection. Ashoke remembers this event for the rest of his life‚
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An important part of this story is the tragic event that happened with Ashoke Ganguli that almost took his life. In 1961 Ashoke was in a terrible train accident and during the wreck he was reading a series of short stories by a Russian author‚ Nikolai Gogol. In 1968‚ Ashima Ganguli is about to give birth to her first child with her newly wedded husband Ashoke. They were one of few Bengali couples in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. Being Bengali‚ it was tradition for them to wait for a letter from Ashima’s
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