Discuss a Postcolonial analysis of Sidhwa's An American Brat.

I think that Sidhwa's work can be approached from a
postcolonial point of view in a couple of ways.  The first would be to examine how
fundamentally uncomfortable Zareen is with the prospect of Feroza's marriage to someone
outside of the Parsee sect.  The idea is something that can be approached from a
postcolonial perspective in that it displays a fundamental tension between the more
indigenous approach to marriage and the one adopted by Feroza as she becomes
increasingly acclimated to life in America.  I think that another postcolonial element
that can be explored is the malleability of individual identity. Feroza is sent away
from Pakistan because Zareen perceives her as becoming too orthodox.  The rise of Zia's
rule and the imprisonment of Bhutto is what causes this fear to emerge.  The impact that
this has on the daughter is what inspires the mother to send her away in the first
place.  Such fluidity in character is evident when the daughter is sent to America and
becomes "Westernized."  From the Postcolonial point of view, this reflects how
individuals are contingent beings whose context plays a large role in the construction
of individual identity.  This would only serve to prove the Postcolonial thinkers right
in thinking that Colonialism played a powerful role in the development of individual and
cultural notions of the good.  In Sidhwa's depiction, this tenet of Postcolonialism is
demonstrated.