TY - BOOK AU - Morey, Peter AB - 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. DO - 10.7228/manchester/9780719067143.001.0001 ID - OAPEN ID: 341372 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 271571061 KW - literature KW - mistry KW - postcolonial KW - parsi KW - India KW - Jahangir KW - Mumbai KW - Parsis KW - Zoroastrianism L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/abb9d232-be9c-4845-87b5-e26ef005803d/341372.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/35022 PB - Manchester University Press PY - 2004 SN - 9780719067143 TI - Rohinton Mistrynull ER -