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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... observes the comings and goings of the apartment , but , as his illness takes hold , his all - seeing gaze gradually moves from the world outside to the blank wall of the lobby ' As though he is not interested in the outside world any ...
... observes the comings and goings of the apartment , but , as his illness takes hold , his all - seeing gaze gradually moves from the world outside to the blank wall of the lobby ' As though he is not interested in the outside world any ...
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... ? ( SLJ , 74 ) 11 11 As Williams observes , ' What Dinshawji laments in the loss of the old names is the loss of the old logocentric security , that metaphysical reassurance via language " of the meaning of being 78 Rohinton Mistry.
... ? ( SLJ , 74 ) 11 11 As Williams observes , ' What Dinshawji laments in the loss of the old names is the loss of the old logocentric security , that metaphysical reassurance via language " of the meaning of being 78 Rohinton Mistry.
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... observes that the Shiv Sena ' has internalised the nationalist faith in the magic of names so deeply that it has renamed not merely the parks and streets , but also the entire city , Mumbai ' . Sunil Khilnani , The Idea of India ...
... observes that the Shiv Sena ' has internalised the nationalist faith in the magic of names so deeply that it has renamed not merely the parks and streets , but also the entire city , Mumbai ' . Sunil Khilnani , The Idea of India ...
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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