Parsi Tradition in Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Firozsha Baag

Authors

  • Dr. Rekha Nagwanshi Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Bastar University, Jagdalpur, Bastar, Chhattisgarh

Keywords:

Parsi Culture, Parsi Tradition, Bombay, Short Story

Abstract

Rohinton Mistry’s short stories explore the same themes that are exhaustibly dealt in his novels. Most of his short stories provide us a peek into his longer fiction. These short stories were written by him during a period when his novels were still in origin form. While going through these short stories certain features are marked out which have been developed to the fullest extent in his longer fiction? However, certain other short stories are so captivating and powerful that a full length novel can be carved out of them. Rohinton Mistry’s first major work, the collection of short stories Tales from Firozsha Baag is set in India. The residents of Firozsha Baag are mostly Parsis. In fact, the setting of Tales from Firozsha Baag reverses the situation of Parsi community in modern India. It presents with a search for personal and communal identity through the recollections of a homeland and responses to the immigrant’s new world. Author explores both Canadian and Indian identities in the stories and then he pictures how these are created and destroyed, how they overlap and blend.

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Published

31-03-2017

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Dr. Rekha Nagwanshi. (2017). Parsi Tradition in Rohinton Mistry’s Tales from Firozsha Baag. The Watchman, 1(1), 1–7. Retrieved from https://watchmanjournal.com/index.php/tw/article/view/10

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017): March 2017

Section

Research Article

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