Rohinton MistryManchester University Press, 19/07/2013 - 224 páginas This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The award-winning novelist Rohinton Mistry is recognised as one of the most important contemporary writers of postcolonial literature. This study - the first of its kind - 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, conventions of oral storytellling common to Persia and South Asia, 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. |
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... observes an old man in his Toronto apartment block staring silently at the flakes of snow falling outside . He muses : What thoughts is he thinking as he watches them ? Of childhood days , perhaps , and snowmen with hats and pipes , and ...
... observes an old man in his Toronto apartment block staring silently at the flakes of snow falling outside . He muses : What thoughts is he thinking as he watches them ? Of childhood days , perhaps , and snowmen with hats and pipes , and ...
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... a servant , Jacqueline ( whose name is corrupted to Jaakaylee by Parsi mispronunciation ) is , like Francis , something of an outsider despite her forty - nine years of service . She observes how ayahs live close to the 38 Rohinton Mistry.
... a servant , Jacqueline ( whose name is corrupted to Jaakaylee by Parsi mispronunciation ) is , like Francis , something of an outsider despite her forty - nine years of service . She observes how ayahs live close to the 38 Rohinton Mistry.
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Peter Morey. service . She observes how ayahs live close to the floor , grinding masala and chopping vegetables . Significantly , after attending midnight mass , Jaakaylee sleeps outside the flat , by the stairs , so as not to disturb ...
Peter Morey. service . She observes how ayahs live close to the floor , grinding masala and chopping vegetables . Significantly , after attending midnight mass , Jaakaylee sleeps outside the flat , by the stairs , so as not to disturb ...
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