LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 7 July 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Parsis Moving Beyond Custom and Tradition -
Bapsi Sidhwa -A Voice to the Voiceless

Iftikhar Hussain Lone, M.Phil.

“Feroza slipped under her quilt fully dressed, her eyes wide open, her mind throbbing with elation. She was going to America! She found it difficult to believe. She repeated to herself “I’m going to America, I’m going to America!” until her doubts slowly ebbed and her certainty too, caught the rhythm of her happiness to the land of glossy magazines, of “Bewitched” and “Star Trek,” of rock-stars and Jeans…” (An American Brat 27)

Presenting Parsi Ethos in Double Diaspora

Rooted in displaced or double Diaspora conditions, the characters in Sidhwa’s novels are initiated into a self-awakening or self-realization or at other times an acute awareness of one’s own culture. Instigation, self-awakening, and voyage into oneself are a few of the major characteristics of Sidhwa’s novels. These characters undergo an awakening into a political consciousness, and a consciousness of their own bodies and their indigenousness; and these result in a general outward growth, and development into the sub-continental human psyche.

Thus, Sidhwa’s characters are all strong reflections of the people of the sub-continent who have attained awakening and have come to terms with the time-tested ruthlessness of the culture they are living in.

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