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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... experience , as well as , in the later tales , from Firozsha Baag to Canada . In true short story cycle fashion the ... experiences in other stories in the volume , experiences we have read about previously or will encounter as we read ...
... experience , as well as , in the later tales , from Firozsha Baag to Canada . In true short story cycle fashion the ... experiences in other stories in the volume , experiences we have read about previously or will encounter as we read ...
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... experience of emigration , but also the power of language to encode these experiences in different story - types - heroic , epic , tragicomic and so on - and the role of listeners and readers in creating meaning . ( As such , it takes ...
... experience of emigration , but also the power of language to encode these experiences in different story - types - heroic , epic , tragicomic and so on - and the role of listeners and readers in creating meaning . ( As such , it takes ...
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... experience , since their truth is presupposed in the interpretation of experience.19 Thus , Scruton quotes Kant to show that the notion of God itself can be seen as an a priori regulative force : ' the ideal of a supreme being is ...
... experience , since their truth is presupposed in the interpretation of experience.19 Thus , Scruton quotes Kant to show that the notion of God itself can be seen as an a priori regulative force : ' the ideal of a supreme being is ...
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