A Cultural Identity Exploration Workshop for First and Second Generation Chinese Americans

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Chung ◽  
Holli Eaton ◽  
Stephen Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Chinese Americans ◽  
Identity Exploration ◽  
First And Second Generation

scholarly journals The Cultural Negotiation: A Shift of Paradigm between First and Second Generation Immigrants in Lahiri’s The Namesake

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-98
Author(s):  
Nagendra Bahadur Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
Cultural Negotiation ◽  
Second Generation Immigrants ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
First And Second Generation

Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake explores the cultural negotiation of first and second generation Indian immigrants in America. They oscillate between two cultural spaces i.e. Indian and American searching cultural identity. This study makes an attempt to analyze the paradigm shift between the first and second generations in their cultural negotiation. Their experience of identity crisis, the process of assimilation in the host culture, the deculturation and acculturation processes, the reactions to the discriminatory practices and sense of belonging are examined. They are analyzed by using the theoretical concepts of Hall’s cultural identity and Bhabha’s third space. The cultural negotiation experienced by these two generations in diasporic hybrid cultural space renders fluid and unstable cultural identity. However, the differing approaches adopted by these two generations in their cultural negotiation results in diverse experiences.

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