International Research Journal of Education and Technology

Trauma is an event that can possibly happen because of losing something, such us death of family, couple, or people who have good relation. Novel is one kind of prose which tries to express something widely. Various events in life which is faced by characters in the story are psychological aspects. Related to psychology of literature, Trauma is one of psychological aspect in human. Identity crises is a fact that no one does not want to change or suffer but they expect the other to change by all means in undergoing various cultural, religious and dislocation of land from one to another. The focus of this paper lies in the complete effort on understanding the trauma of the Indian diasporians and losing their identity in their society. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake, it is Ashima who as a child of Bengal resembles the proof of immigrant where the ongoing quest of identity crises arises. She has been sandwiched between the birth of her country and has adopted the ideologies of alien country. Gogol and other characters in The Namesake face this perpetual dilemma as faced by immigrants while settling their lives in a new land. They struggle to maintain their identities while trying to shake them off at the same time.

Keywords: Trauma, Conflict, Identity Crisis