Paper short abstract:

Bapsi Sidhwa expresses in her works the suffering and the agony of the displaced people who had to adopt the alien culture either willingly or unwillingly.She addresses important issues of selfhood, ethnic and communal identity as well as nuance and effects of a cross culture contours.

Paper long abstract:

Literature is the reflection of the society. Fiction, a part of Literature, thus is a projection of the social, cultural consciousness. Bapsi Sidhwa uses this apt medium to represent men- women, life, culture, society and diasporic condition through her imaginative repertoire of characters and stories.

Culture and society play a significant role in common people's life in all over the world. Sidhwa portray its impact on the life of people especially the women folk and penetrate deep into the minds of women in her fiction. Bapsi Sidhwa's brilliant grasp of the diaspora of Parsi community, her portrayal of inner psyche of the displaced people in Indian , Pakistani and American society are interesting aspects of this paper with focus on how these dislocation and cross cultures contours have affected the psyche of the characters. She has delineated their problems, dilemmas, nostalgia and aspirations in the Indian, Pakistani and American context. Her protagonists react to the outdated traditions and cultures, which tend to affect upon their lives. Sidhwa's protagonists specially the women have strength of their own and despite challenges and hostilities, they remain uncrushed. The paper is a modest attempt to underline the impact of cross cultural contours on the psyche and life of woman and redefine the role and status of women in the community and society. An attempt has also been made to discuss some of the main traits of culture and society and apply them to the fiction of Sidhwa