Bani Basu’s Janmabhoomi Matribhoomi and Jhumpa lahiri’s Samanami (The Namesake) : A Comparative study and analysis
Journal Title: International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 6
Abstract
Bani Basu is one of the major Bengali novelists,Who has been contributing one famous experiment after another to the readers of the Bengali novel since 1987. An English honours graduate and a post-graduate from the ‘University of Calcutta’, She has taught English literature in a college in Kolkata. As a student and teacher of English literature she is well versed about the socio-economic conditions and the philosophical outlook of the West. Bani Basu began her career as a novelist with the publication of Janmabhoomi Matribhoomi (1987). In this novel Bani Basu has presented a shrap contrast between the life of American people and non-residential middle classes of Bengal.The novel deals with the plight of a middle-class family on it’s return to Kolkata after spending many years in America. On the other hand, Jhumpa Lahiri is not a Bengali writer. Born in London she emigrated to the United States after 1960s. After the grand success of the Pulitzer Prize-wining short-story collection Interpreter of Maladies she wrote her first novel The Namesake (2003) in English from America. It was later published in Bengali under the title Samanami. In Samanami, the main characters of the novel feel an anguish of alienation, loneliness and rootlessness like Bani Basu’s Janmabhoomi Matribhoomi. This alienation of being a foreigner is compared to ‘a sort of life long pregnancy’ in Samanami . This paper attempts to explore the thematic similarities between the two novels mentioned above and delineates the intertextual traces.
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Parimal Chandra Das
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