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A CRITICAL JOURNEY OF NOVELS BAPSI SIDHWA

    2 Author(s):  AVDHESH CHANDRA BIJLWAN , MANISHA YADAV

Vol -  8, Issue- 12 ,         Page(s) : 401 - 405  (2017 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/CASIRJ

Abstract

Bapsi Sidhwa is one of the most prominent writers of English fiction. She was born in an eminent parsi business family of Karachi (Pakistan) in 1939. Sidhwa began her writing career at the age of twenty six and eventually blossomed as a writer. All the four novels of sidhwa – The Language of Love, The Crow Eaters, The Pakistan Bride, Ice Candy Man and An American Brat- show her perception towards life as a Parsi, Punjabi, Pakistani and American woman respectively. The poignant experiences of her life ignite her to give expression and she created a larger reality of fiction. Sidhwa was a feminist. She was greatly influenced by western feminist literature and the incidents in her novels speak a lot about feminism but she was never against men. Undoubtedly her protagonist are women and they struggle for survival and honor and men are humiliated and rejected but Sidhwa adds new perspective to feminist by showing that not only men can exploit and harass a woman but they (Women) can be exploited by other women also.

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