• Neha

A cultural clash is a situation in which the diverging attitudes, morals, opinions, or customs of two dissimilar cultures or subcultures are revealed. This may occur, for example, when people in different professions, such as academics and business people, collaborate on a project. (Internet) A cultural clash is a kind of conflict that emerges when various cultural significances and principles collide. Wide and limited descriptions occur for the notion both of which have been manipulated to clarify turmoil and confusion. Many writers use this conflict as a theme in / her works Monica Ali's “Brick Lane” and Jhumpa Lahiri’s "The Namesake" are one of them. This research paper purports to analyze the clash of cultures as encoded in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake. which are filled with issues of cultural dislocation, deportation, difference and continuity, strangeness and understanding confronted by characters residing in a complicated and multicultural nation. Cultural identity, in its broadest sense, may be characterized as a sense of belonging to a specific religious or political community. It is “the meaning of groups or persons... in context of racial or sub cultural divisions (including race, nationality, language, faith, and gender),”As per to the Oxford Dictionary of Information and Communication technology (Chandler, 2011: 137). Since culture comprises everything about a community, it has a vast impact on a person's individuality. Wren (2002: 213) differences among “personal identity” along with “community” or “national identity” in “National Culture and Individual Identity,” stating: “Rather, he encourages ethnic identity and collective iidentification to coexist (232). Personal/individual identification decides a person from others by identifying him or her; cultural identity denotes a person's sense of being appropriate to a society, which is a portion of their identity; hence, personal and cultural identity are related but distinct.

Cultural Clash, Identity Crisis, Individual identity, Community, Nostalgia, Dilemma, Migrant, Diaspora, and Alienation

"Cultural Clash : An analytical study of Monica Ali’s “Brick Lane” and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Namesake”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 5, page no.j362-j366, May-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2205A47.pdf

"Cultural Clash : An analytical study of Monica Ali’s “Brick Lane” and Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Namesake”", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 5, page no. ppj362-j366, May-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2205A47.pdf