Kaleidoscopic World of Diaspora in Fictions of Bapsi Sidhwa
Keywords:
Diaspora, Migration, Immigration, PartitionAbstract
Being from a small Zoroastrian community, Bapsi Sidhwa is always aware of her surroundings and depicts them in her paintings. In her last three works, she discusses Parsi rites and culture. Sidhwa's favourite topics are migration and immigration. She was nine years old when India was partitioned in 1947, and in the novel Ice Candy Man, she discusses the issue of partition in an autobiographical tone. Her most recent novel, An American Brat, is primarily set in USA and depicts the challenges that immigrants encounter, therefore examining the Parsi and Pakistani diaspora. Sidhwa's woman characters are attractive, intellectual, and upbeat.
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