Roots, routes and pursuits : examining the second-generation immigrant identity crisis in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake and unaccustomed earth

• Main Author: Tan, Beatrice Enting
• Other Authors: Boey Kim Cheng
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70241
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Instead of contributing to existing criticism on first-generation immigrant identity and diaspora, this thesis studies the second-generation immigrant identity crisis in The Namesake and Unaccustomed Earth. Chapter one of my thesis will attempt to further use established threads of thought to firstl...