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VOL. 3, ISSUE 4 (2016)
Aspects of social issues in rohinton mistry’s fiction
Authors
Devidas Adhar Pardhi
Abstract
A number of contemporary writers fictionalize these aspects of life. The Post-Colonial fictional writings often provide a revisiting to history and contest it existing interpretation. The fiction writers often mix fact and fiction to re-examine the earlier happenings, incidents, views and assumptions. Their major concern is the nature of reality that existed during the colonial period. These writers also concentrated on the political and social happenings of life. Rohinton' Mistry has emerged as a significant literary figure in the twentieth century. He is a socio-political writer. He lived in Bombay. It makes him depicting the life of the Parsis in India and portraying the corruption of the city. The literature of Parsis is characterized by both the features of ethnocentric and minority discourse. They suffer from the sense of insecurity and identity crisis. There are the other disturbing ethnic features like declining population, late marriages, low birth rate, high rate of divorce, attitudes to the girl child, urbanization, alienation etc. All these issues are present in the Post- Independence Parsi writing in English. The literature of Parsi is group of people specific also.
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Pages:391-395
How to cite this article:
Devidas Adhar Pardhi "Aspects of social issues in rohinton mistry’s fiction". International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development, Vol 3, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 391-395
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