Rohinton MistryManchester University Press, 2004 - 209 páginas The award-winning novelist Rohinton Mistry is recognised as one of the most important contemporary writers of postcolonial literature. His subtle yet powerful narratives engross general readers, excite critical acclaim and form staple elements of literature courses across the world. This study - the first of its kind on this writer - will provide scholars and students with an insight into the key features of Mistry's work. Peter Morey suggests how the author's writing can be read in terms of recent Indian political history, his native Zoroastrian culture and ethos, and the experience of migration which now sees him living in Canada. The texts are viewed through the lens of diaspora and minority discourse theories to show how Mistry's writing is illustrative of marginal positions in relation to sanctioned national identities. In addition, Mistry utilises and blends the conventions of oral storytelling common to the Persian and South Asian traditions with nods in the direction of the canonical figures of modern European literature, sometimes reworking and reinflecting their registers and preoccupations to create a distinctive voice redolent of the hybrid inheritance of Parsi culture and of the postcolonial predicament more generally. |
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... family life is inextricably linked to the physical . Yet it is also connected to that other corruption infesting the social space and political institutions of Bombay , adding urgency to what Adam Mars - Jones , in his ... Family Matters 131.
... family life is inextricably linked to the physical . Yet it is also connected to that other corruption infesting the social space and political institutions of Bombay , adding urgency to what Adam Mars - Jones , in his ... Family Matters 131.
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... Family Matters from being simply a text lamenting moral decline , is that both Yezad and his son act as they do for the best of reasons : to secure extra funds to cover the increased cost of looking after Nariman with his expensive ...
... Family Matters from being simply a text lamenting moral decline , is that both Yezad and his son act as they do for the best of reasons : to secure extra funds to cover the increased cost of looking after Nariman with his expensive ...
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... Family Matters , however , complicates the picture by raising the question of what exactly these good thoughts , words and deeds might consist of . How does one recognise them in a situation where everything and ... Family Matters 135.
... Family Matters , however , complicates the picture by raising the question of what exactly these good thoughts , words and deeds might consist of . How does one recognise them in a situation where everything and ... Family Matters 135.
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Ahura Mazda Amit Chaudhuri appears Auspicious Occasion Balance Bapsi Sidhwa becomes Bharucha Bombay Canada Canadian chaos characters colonial contemporary Coomy corruption cricket critics cultural death described Diaspora Dilnavaz Dina's Dinshawji discourse Dr Mody Emergency English ethnic evil example experience Family Matters Fiction Fine Balance Firozsha Baag Gandhi Gustad Hindu hybridity Ibid identity India Ishvar Jaakaylee Jehangir Jimmy Kapur Kersi language Linda Hutcheon literary Literature lives London Long Journey Luhrmann Maneck memory metafictional migration Mistry's Mistry's novel Mistry's writing moral Mukherjee Nariman narrative narrator Nilufer offers Parsi Parsi community pattern Persian political postcolonial reader realist reality recognise ritual Rohinton Mistry Roxana Rukmini Bhaya Nair Rushdie Rustomji Sarosh-Sid sense Shah-Namah Shiv Sena short story cycle social Squatter storytelling Swimming Lessons symbolic tailors tale Tehmul theme Toronto tradition University Press V. S. Naipaul Valmik Yezad Zoroastrian