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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... kind of sport , where the spectators eagerly become participants in the hunt . Francis is quickly apprehended , given a beating by the less scrupulous among his pursuers , and brought back into the presence of his accuser . Throughout ...
... kind of sport , where the spectators eagerly become participants in the hunt . Francis is quickly apprehended , given a beating by the less scrupulous among his pursuers , and brought back into the presence of his accuser . Throughout ...
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... kind of divine idiot or fool figure . Like Dostoyevsky's eponymous character , Prince Myshkin , in The Idiot , Tehmul appears too good , too innocent for the duplicitous society in which he is placed . His tumbling , repetitious ...
... kind of divine idiot or fool figure . Like Dostoyevsky's eponymous character , Prince Myshkin , in The Idiot , Tehmul appears too good , too innocent for the duplicitous society in which he is placed . His tumbling , repetitious ...
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... kind of plaintiff , and ' creating fiction after fiction , which will become more real in the recipients ' lives than all their sad realities ' ( AFB , 604 ) ; something of an ambivalent fate for a character whose stoicism has earlier ...
... kind of plaintiff , and ' creating fiction after fiction , which will become more real in the recipients ' lives than all their sad realities ' ( AFB , 604 ) ; something of an ambivalent fate for a character whose stoicism has earlier ...
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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