@phdthesis{UNY21094, month = {June}, title = {IDENTITY CRISIS OF THE SECOND GENERATION OF ASIANINDIAN AMERICANS AS REFLECTED IN LAHIRI?S THE NAMESAKE}, author = {Anestiya Fiddin Rosyada}, school = {Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta}, year = {2013}, url = {http://eprints.uny.ac.id/21094/}, keywords = {identity, identity crisis, second generation of Asian-Indian Americans, Lahiri?s The Namesake}, abstract = {This research aims to identify identity crisis of the second generation of Asian-Indian Americans depicted in a novel entitled The Namesake, and to explain the impact of the crisis. To answer the objectives, this research employed the theory of psychosocial development stages of identity by Erikson. The research is qualitative in nature and a descriptive-qualitative method was used to analyze the data. The main source of this research is a novel entitled The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. The data are some phrases, clauses, sentences, discourses, and expressions related to identity crisis of the second generation of Asian-Indian Americans and the impacts of the crisis in the main character?s personality. The data analysis was conducted through six steps: reading and re-reading, noting, identifying, classifying and categorizing, analyzing and interpreting, making the interrelation between the description of the data and the theory. To obtain trustworthiness, the researcher used peer debriefing method. The findings of this research show that there are three major problems of identity crisis happening in the second generation of Asian-Indian Americans seen through the life of Gogol Ganguli in his adolescence period: identity diffusion, identity foreclosure, negative identity. The crisis results in Gogol?s failure to resolve the problems. The failure makes him suffer from identity confusion. Thus, it gives impact to the personality of Gogol Ganguli as seen through the malignancies Gogol has in adulthood stage: intimacy crisis, isolation (exclusion), and distantion. Because of the inability to resolve the identity crisis, the problems bequeath into malignancies which give impact to Gogol?s personality: careless, reckless, impulsive, unable to control life, unable to make decision, and discouraged.} }