Cultural Liminality and Immigrant Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake (2003) and Manju Kapur’s The Immigrant (2010)

Diaspora in Greek means dispersion and scattering. The term was first used to refer to the Jewish communities who were exiled from their homeland by Roman authorities. They travelled with without fixed destination to reach. In multicultural, Alexandria, Jews retained their culture while assimilating the Greek language and Hellenic culture. Sufferings in a new land, inability to go back, their destination, homelessness were the features of the diaspora of the Jews. Diaspora essentially is a bitter experience of dislocation that leads to alienation, a sense of loss, and nostalgic desires. Diaspora, therefore, is the dispersed migration exiled from their homeland in other parts of the world