BAPSI SIDHWA'S AN AMERICAN BRAT: AN INTER CULTURAL THEME

An American brat deals with the inter-cultural theme and has assumed a vital significance for many a post-colonial novelist. Bapsi Sidhwa is the product of the conflicts and reconciliations of the East and the West. Speaking of the east- west encounter Meenakshi Mukherji observes: In some novels, the west appears as a character, in some others as an attitude or a set of values. In an American Brat, the conflict between the two cultures is perceptible not only on the social plane but also on the ‘personal level’ leading to a quest for identity.