The Multiplicity of Themes in the Fiction of Bapsi Sidhwa
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Dr. Upendra Kumar Dwivedi,
Iterative International Publishers IIP (Publisher)
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2023-09-30
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It is a widely accepted belief that exiled writers’ benefit from their uprooting and what is left behind is more clearly seen, while the new abode is viewed in a much sharper sense, than its indigenes can manage to. It was only after the Second World War that women novelists transcended gender-related limitations in their thematic concerns and started writing about a range of experiences, including the squalid and the terrifying. In Sidhwa’s work, themes diverge from traditional to contemporary. Belonging to an urbane Parsi family, Sidhwa benefited from both a secure cultural identity and a tolerance of other communities at the same time, by virtue of the absence of dietary and social taboos in Zoroastrianism. Moreover, though a traditionally sheltered community, young Parsi girls were not as sequestered as their Hindu and Muslim counterparts in society. Above all, the Parsis have been all along known to be westernized and pro- British more than any of their fellow brothers in India. Thus, Sidhwa was exposed to the norms of hybridization very early in her life, which made her mental and cultural exile easier to depict in her novels. The physical migration of millions of uprooted people closely encountered by Sidhwa. She prepared her mind further to endorse the feelings of the exiled and cement her perceptions through the eyes of them, who are left in the wilderness. She has drawn extensively on her communal heritage and benefited from the privileged environment and cosmopolitan background typical of a wealthy Parsi household. In the last thirty years there is a vigorous development in thinking about women and their role in society. For majority of women, their gender has had some effect on their experiences, and theirperceptions of the world. This is reflected in the nature of the work they produce. Feminism has become a lightly important issue in contemporary thought and has resulted in challenging the patriarchal assumption.
