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Such a Long Journey : Rohinton Mistry's Parsi King Lear from fiction to film

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Taneja, Preti (2019) Such a Long Journey : Rohinton Mistry's Parsi King Lear from fiction to film. In: Trivedi, P. and Chakravarti, P., (eds.) Shakespeare and Indian cinemas : 'local habitations'. Routledge studies in Shakespeare, 33 . London: Routledge, pp. 143-161. ISBN 9781138946927

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The Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry draws deeply on Shakespeare and particularly on King Lear to explore the 'janus faced' psychological dilemma of the male Parsi postcolonial subject. Shakespeare's tragedy is a primary organising device for the novel, acting as meta- and intertext, the medium through which Mistry writes a political critique of life in 1970s Bombay. This chapter examines Mistry's appropriation of Shakespeare as a key site of postcolonial negotiation and contrasts the approach taken by Gunnarsson and Taraporevala to the theme. It shows how an idea of 'India' is created for a global marketplace in two different kinds of artistic media: an intertextual literary work by a writer of the Indian diaspora whose debt to King Lear has far been underappreciated and a Western art-house film about which there has been a dearth of critical thinking to date, perhaps partly because of its 'silencing' of the Shakespeare ur-text.

Item Type: Book Item
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies
Series Name: Routledge studies in Shakespeare
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: London
ISBN: 9781138946927
Book Title: Shakespeare and Indian cinemas : 'local habitations'
Editor: Trivedi, P. and Chakravarti, P.
Official Date: 2019
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Volume: 33
Page Range: pp. 143-161
DOI: 10.4324/9781315670409
Status: Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
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