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Title Re-imagining Cultural Integration: Contesting Cultural Gaslighting in Selected Diasporic Fiction

Author(s) ARIF KHAN

Abstract The present study analyses three South Asian diasporic novels, Home Fire (2017) by Kamila Shamsie, The Chai Factor (2019) by Farah Heron and Love Marriage (2022) by Monica Ali through the lenses of Young Yun Kim’s (2001) theory of Cultural Integration, Elena Ruiz’s (2020) model of Cultural Gaslighting and Zeus Leonardo’s (2004) concept of White Supremacy. This qualitative study uses the method of textual analysis to investigate the integrative efforts of the second generation of South Asian immigrants by adapting to the cultural norms and social standards of the English and Canadian societies. This research brings out the construct of cultural gaslighting and white supremacy as a hindrance in the way of transformative transition and its impact on the psyche of the second generation of South Asian immigrants. Moreover, the research highlights the struggle of South Asian immigrant to contest the exercise of cultural gaslighting and white supremacy through their integrative efforts. The Research concludes by re-imagining the concept of cultural integration and making a suggestion that the receiving attitude and acceptability factor of migrant receiving societies are needed to be viewed along with the integrating maneuvers and adaptive measures of immigrants for a broader study of the transformative efforts at the end of immigrants of color in the white dominant host societies. Moreover, this study recommends for the future researchers to excavate the devastating impacts of cultural gaslighting and white supremacy on the psychic conditions of the second generation of South Asian immigrants in diverse cultural environments of the Western countries, its impact on the integrative endeavors of the immigrants, and the contesting efforts of South Asian immigrants against the exercise of cultural gaslighting and white supremacy.

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Publication Date 2023-07-03

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