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Postcolonial literature probes into the experience of being away from one's ancestral homeland. It embodies the literary works of authors voluntarily or involuntarily displaced from their native land owing to aspects such as emigration, exile or globalization. Globalization embraces, multiculturalism allowing for more fluid and dynamic perception of self in postcolonial contexts. This paper discusses how the celebrated author Jhumpa Lahiri in her famous work The Namesake, examines in what manner migration corrodes conventional perception of belonging as the characters circumnavigate between their ancestral Bengali culture and the American surroundings, where they dwell. Relying on the theoretical underpinnings of Homi Bhabha's Third Space Theory, Stuart Hall's Cultural Identity Theory and Gayatri Spivak's Theory of the Subaltern, Lahiri's narrative accentuates how globalization transfigures identity into a fluid construct, challenging established national identity.