A Double Vision in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Interpreter of Maladies and The Namesake

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Abstract

Double vision is another important theme in Lahiri’s novels. It depicts cultural conflicts and cultural dilemmas of first and second generation immigrants in the alien land. Lahiri describes the themes with the characters very beautifully in all the novels. She expresses the deep sense of fascination towards the attached culture such as strong family relationships, gratitude to the arranged marriage system, life style, eating habits, passion for mother tongue. At the same time she explicates the alien land language, livelihood, food habits, individual life style, mismatched marriages and fragmented family system in her literary works makes the Indian origin immigrants feel great confusion between two diverse cultures, sometimes conflicts among multi cultures.