English III The Namesake: Home

Editor: Sara Constantakis Volume 31
Anthology: Novels for Students

Author: Austen, Benjamin
From Contemporary Literary Criticism
Database: Gale Literature Criticism

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Tieger is a freelance writer and editor. In the following essay, she discusses Gogol's changing feelings toward his name, his family, and his heritage in The Namesake. In particular, she looks at Gogol's relationship with his father and his relationships with women as a means of tracing Gogol's evolving emotions.

Novels for Students article - Look towards the end of the main article - CITED SEPARATELY!
Author: Natalie Friedman
In the following excerpt, Friedman considers The Namesake as a contemporary immigrant narrative and as a travel narrative.

By: Ruth Maxey
Resource: Encyclopedia of the American Novel

By: Jill Jividen
From: Student's Encyclopedia of American Literary Characters

By Min Hyoung Song
From: Jhumpa Lahiri

by Podolsky, Marjorie J.
From (Journal) Magill’s Literary Annual 2004

By Sharma, Nirmal
From International Journal on Multicultural Literature

By Bromwich, David
From Nation (Journal)