A Study On The Struggle Of Women Survival In The Select novels Of Bapsi Sidhwa

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D. VELVIZHI , Dr. P. SANTHOSH

Abstract

Bapsi Sidhwa is arguably Pakistan's most acclaimed internationally acclaimed English writer, giving Pakistani English fiction a
distinct identity. It is mostly associated with creative representations of the traumatic incident of India's partition in 1947 in the
writings of those first generation writers who paid attention to "the human dimensions of this major historical event and the
enormous human cost it entailed." She could empathize with those who had lost loved ones because she had witnessed the
collective life of common Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs in Lahore as a child.No anthology on the English literary traditions of India
and Pakistan, or on Commonwealth or World English literature, can thus claim to be definitive if it ignores discussions of Sidhwa
works. This current study is about gaining a deeper understanding of her women characters, which live in a widow ashram,
revealing them not as separate characters with intertwined lives, but as five stages of a woman's life in a circle that undergoes
repression of emotions and desires to varying degrees. Sidhwa's two novels, "The Pakistani Bride" and "Water," both highlight
women's victimization.

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