· In her next novel An American Brat () Bapsi Sidhwa moves the- locale from Pakistan to the United States of America. In it, she takes up the issues like globalisation, brain-drain from the third world. “In An American Brat, Bapsi Sidhwa handles the change in theme and locale, expertly, with a lot of humour and from a contemporary www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 9 mins. · An American Brat by Bapsi Sidhwa. 1. Bapsi Sidhwa is an acclaimed Pakistani writer, whose focus is on women’s experience in the time of Partition in India. She explores abuse against women, justified by a patriarchal society, making the woman a double victim. Sidhwa, Bapsi. An American brat / Bapsi Sidhwa. — 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN (cloth) (paper) I. Pakistanis—Travel—United States—Fiction. 2. Teenage girls—United States—Fiction. I. Title PRS53A82 —dc20 For Noshir Minoo Feroze (alias Fred) And in memory of Laurie Colwin. AN AMERICAN.
An American Brat by Bapsi Sidhwa Tuesday, May 8, "An American Brat" by Bapsi Sidhwa. Bapsi Sidhwa's life and work: Bapsi Sidhwa was born in Karachi and brought up in Lahore. She graduated from Kinnaird College for Women. She lives in Houston. She wrote many other novels such as Ice-Candy Man. An American Brat is an exceptional novel, one of such interest that the reader's reservations, while significant, are ultimately of little consequence. Bapsi Sidhwa, author of three previous works of fiction and frequently referred to as Pakistan's most prominent English-language novelist, has produced a remarkable sketch of American society as. Complete summary of Bapsi Sidhwa's An American Brat. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of An American Brat.
‘An American Brat’ by ‘Bapsi Sidhwa’ is an insightful account of the experience of a young immigrant from Pakistan to the United States in the 70s. The novel also touches upon the reservations and anxiety experienced by different sects in Pakistan due the change from Bhutto’s liberal era to Zia’s conservative one. In the tradition of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Gish Jen's Typical American, An American Brat brings insight while entertaining readers with an enormously satisfying story and characters. Sidhwa allows us to see Americans from the point of view of newcomers - an occasionally unsettling perspective - while gently illuminating the potentially destructive influence of fundamentalism on a culture and individuals. The prime objective of this critique is to highlight the various issues related to cultural divergence that Bapsi Sidhwa has dealt with in her fourth novel ‘An American Brat’. An American Brat contrasts the status of women in the Third World and First World countries through a female character Feroza who migrates from Pakistan to America where she finds herself tempted for an inter-community marriage. An assortment of elements such as diaspora, self assertion, female characterization.
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