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how is gender identity constructed in the namesake, by paying specific attention to the gender roles and the dynamics between Ashoke & Ahima, Gogol & Maxime and Gogik and Moushima

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how is gender identity constructed in the namesake, by paying specific attention to the gender roles and the dynamics between Ashoke & Ahima, Gogol & Maxime and Gogik and Moushima

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- http://kallibear.blogspot.com/2017/05/identity-in-namesake.html

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- They both feel a connection to bengali culture, even though they have botd tried to push it awat

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Why does chapter 7 started from the perspective from Ashima

We learn that she now has stopped doing certain things that would bring her happiness. She is very lonely and isolated at this point and in many ways things such as cooking elaborate meals for her family.

She is experiencing a phase where she is not really taking care of herself

Identify specific quotes that show that goggle is changing

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Namesake : The American dream

Seeking opportunities

Fulfillment

Have the gangalis achieved the American dream?

how ever, ashoke does not go to America with the idea of becoming rich, he goes to explore the world and also to get as far away as possible from his life in India.

However, to assume that America is a place to study also assumes that there are a lot of opportunities in the U.S., which also applies to the American dream

In the context of India at that time, going abroad ment going to America

Cultural difference

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What are the pecularities of the ABCD

HYPERNATED IDENTITY

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The title of the book is that namesake, foreshadowing the power a name can carry and how it can form a identity.

Gogol's decision to change his name to Nikhil before leaving home for college demonstrates his desire to take control of his own identity.

Gogol is also a name that holds a deep meaning for Ashoke, since it was a book of short stories by Gogol, a Russian author that saved his life during a train crash, but this meaning is not conveyed to Gogol/nikhil during his childhood

The main tension that drives Gogol's identity confusion is the divide between his family's Indian heritage and his own desire for an independent, modern, American lifestyle.

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- Getting further away from his parents not wanting to embrace his culture. He is insecure about the fact that he is different and he belongs to a minority and it is hard for him to embrace both cultures.

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Child of the Americas by Aurora Levins Morales, b. 1954

I am a child of the Americas,

a light-skinned mestiza of the Caribbean,

a child of many diaspora, born into this continent at a crossroads.

I am a U.S. Puerto Rican Jew,

a product of the ghettos of New York I have never known.

An immigrant and the daughter and granddaughter of immigrants.

I speak English with passion: it’s the tongue of my consciousness,

a flashing knife blade of crystal, my tool, my craft.

I am Caribena, island grown. Spanish is in my flesh,

ripples from my tongue, lodges in my hips:

the language of garlic and mangoes,

the singing in my poetry, the flying gestures of my hands.

I am of Latinoamerica, rooted in the history of my continent:

I speak from that body.

I am not african. Africa is in me, but I cannot return.

I am not taina. Taino is in me, but there is no way back.

I am not european. Europe lives in me, but I have no home there.

I am new. History made me. My first language was spanglish.

I was born at the crossroads

And I am whole.

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- 7 circles around the groom
- arranged marriage (she doesn't get to chose)
- stating their social class

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- Narrated in the 3rd person perspective, but includes other perspectives as well.
- A lot of focus is on the experience of the third persons. the point of view shifts very often.
- Figurative language is used very often in the first paragraph - various senses. We get a very clear idea of the uncomfortableness and the craving of Ashima. - - - - Sensory experiences are being highlighted, and they show what the character is going through by using evocative language.

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1. You are Ashoke. Explain why you didn't take your grandfather's advice and continue to see the world as an armchair traveler, only through books. Talk about the train accident and how your period of convalescence made you want to pursue your graduate studies abroad and see the world during your youth, as Ghosh had urged you to do, before it would be "too late" (16).
Ashoke did not follow his grandfathers advice, because the train accident created a trauma for him with those kind of books that you travel with.

2. In the opening scene, Ashima is making a snack for herself. Food plays a large role throughout the novel. How does the author use food to evoke specific emotions in Chapter 1?
Food is a very

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He Remembers

He can still remember their shouts
Asking if anyone was alive.

He remembers trying to shout back
Unsuccessfully, his mouth emitting nothing
But the faintest rasp.

He remembers the sound of people
Half-dead around him,
Moaning and tapping on the walls of the train,
Whispering hoarsely for help,
Words that only the trapped and injured could possibly hear.
Blood drenched his chest and the right arm of his shirt.

He remembers the acrid odor of flames,
The buzzing flies,
Children crying,
The taste of blood on his tongue.

He remembers believing that he was dying,
That perhaps he was already dead.
The pages of his book, which had been tossed from his hand,
Fluttered in two sections a few feet away from the train.

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1. Ashima tries to make her favorite Calcutta snack the right way in her apartment in Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2. Ashoke takes Ashima to Mount Auburn Hospital.
3. Ashoke and his parents meet Ashima and her parents in their home in Calcutta.
4. Ashima finds out Ashoke’s name.
5. Ashima Bhaduri marries Ashoke and becomes Ashima Ganguli.
6. In the waiting room, Ashoke reads articles in the Boston Globe about the riots that took place during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and Dr. Benjamin Spock’s two-year sentence for having counseled draft evaders.
7. Ashoke sets out on a journey to spend time with his grandfather.
8. Ashoke begins to read Nikolai Gogol’s short story, The Overcoat.
9. Ghosh tells Ashoke about the importance of seeing the world.
10. Ashoke is almost killed in a train accident.
11. Ashoke has to learn how to walk again.
12. Without telling his family, Ashoke applies to graduate schools abroad to continue his studies in engineering.
13. Patty gives Ashoke the news of his son’s birth while he is thinking about how Nikolai Gogol saved his life.

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LOVE & MARRIAGE
- between two families
- marriage before love
RELIGION
- heavily shaped by one religion (christianity), even though there are multiple present. (for example religious holidays)
- different definition
CLOTHING
- a lot of cultural clothing that is very present
- more norms
- especially women are put on expectations they are expected to live up to --> a lot stricter for women
FOOD
- spicy
- strong food culture through centuries
- streetfood (cheap)
MUSIC
- specific to different areas.

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LOVE & MARRIAGE
-  between two individuals
- divorce very common
- sexual relations
- PDA normalized
RELIGION
- heavily shaped by one religion, even though there are multiple present (for example religious holidays)
- conservative vs. liberal
CLOTHING
- everything is okay (more openminded)
- more skin
- more about comfort
FOOD
- fried & fatty foods
- commercialized
MUSIC
- general top hits
- dominant in music culture