Peter Morey

Rohinton Mistry

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Produktbeschreibung

This study - the first of its kind - situates Rohinton Mistry's writing in its cultural and historical context. It explores key features, such as the legacy of Zoroastrianism, Parsi anglophilia, recent Indian history, and the Persian and European narrative traditions on which Mistry draws to produce his distinctive postcolonial fictions.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary World Writers
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 246g
• ISBN-13: 9780719067150
• ISBN-10: 0719067154
• Artikelnr.: 21152335

Autorenporträt

Peter Morey is Senior Lecturer in Literature in the School of Cultural and Innovation Studies at the University of East London

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Series Editor's Foreword List of Abbreviations Chronology
1. Contexts and intertexts 2. 'Throbbing between two lives': The structures
of migration in Tales from Firozsha Baag 3. Mistry's hollow men: Language,
lies and the crisis of representation in Such a Long Journey 4. Thread and
circuses: Performing in the spaces of city and nation in A Fine Balance 5.
Running repairs: Corruption, community and duty in Family Matters 6.
Critical overview 7. Conclusion - Rohinton Mistry: International man of
stories Notes Select Bibliography Index