Transnational Journey in Bapsi Sidhwa’s An American Brat
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 2
Abstract
BapsiSidwa is a Pakistani American novelist and all her novels explore women’s position and condition in particular settings and describe the development of Asian women from passivity to the life of action and also focuses on the psychological factors of the immigrants and their struggle in achieving identity. This work aims at discussing the fictional representation of Pakistani American immigrant characters in the novel An American Brat, by BapsiSidhwa. For this, the paper will explore how people react when they started to live in new land and their changes as a result of migration and what kind of transformation occurred and the reason behind it. An attempt to analyze the entire gamut of a diasporic individual’s social and psychological adjustment, for that it will examine the three stages on their immigration journey such as culture shock, acculturation and reverse culture shock on the characters.
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K. Vaishnavi, Dr. S. Karthik Kumar
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