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    This study analyzes Sidhwa's novel "American Brat" using deconstructionist theory to explore the challenges a Pakistani girl faces in maintaining her cultural identity after being sent to America, where her mother was fascinated by Western culture. However, the girl and her family struggle with losing their cultural ideals and identity. Through content analysis of implied meanings, the study shows that people from countries like Pakistan face significant obstacles in preserving their national and cultural identity due to pressures of assimilating into dominant foreign cultures through globalization.

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    This study analyzes Sidhwa's novel "American Brat" using deconstructionist theory to explore the challenges a Pakistani girl faces in maintaining her cultural identity after being sent to America, where her mother was fascinated by Western culture. However, the girl and her family struggle with losing their cultural ideals and identity. Through content analysis of implied meanings, the study shows that people from countries like Pakistan face significant obstacles in preserving their national and cultural identity due to pressures of assimilating into dominant foreign cultures through globalization.

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    This study analyzes Sidhwa's novel "American Brat" using deconstructionist theory to explore the challenges a Pakistani girl faces in maintaining her cultural identity after being sent to America, where her mother was fascinated by Western culture. However, the girl and her family struggle with losing their cultural ideals and identity. Through content analysis of implied meanings, the study shows that people from countries like Pakistan face significant obstacles in preserving their national and cultural identity due to pressures of assimilating into dominant foreign cultures through globalization.

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    Issues of cultural identity in assimilating globalization: A deconstructionist critique of Sidhwas fiction

    by Shamshad Rasool & Behzad Anwar, Lecturers University of Gujrat, Gujrat

    This study explores the issues faced by a Pakistani girl in sustain her cultural identity. She was sent to America as her mother was fascinated by the western culture. But her daughter and the whole family faced crisis as she was unable to maintain her identity ideals. Out of five novels, American Brat was selected for the study. Being text-based research, the appropriate methodology applied for the Deconstructionist analysis of the text is Content Analysis. Out of three modes of content analysis, latent coding has been applied as it deals with the implied meaning of a text. The study shows that the inhabitants of countries like Pakistan suffer from severe stumbling blocks in maintaining their cultural and nation identity as there are cross-cultural forces which bring about their assimilation in the culture of the dominant.

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