Acculturation or Assimilation of the Diasporic Individual in Bapsi Sidwa's An American Brat

Abstract

Migration in the entire world has created the concept of 'Diaspora'
which remains a social and political upheaval for the existence of the
Subalterns. The Subalterns have to face the second grade treatment
in new foreign set-ups, and have a need to acculturate themselves
with the new identity and assimilate their indigenous identity. These
victimized individuals raise voice against the discrimination of the
social, cultural and political setup of the country they live in. This has
led to a new race of destabilized individuals who look forth for an
identity which might allow them to get assimilated in the new culture
they live in. This paper focuses and studies on whether the individual
really gets acculturated or assimilated or remains consistently the
'other' by the analysis of Bapsi Sidwa's novel An American Brat.