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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Abstract

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
Dates:	Date Event 2019 Published
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Status:	Not Peer Reviewed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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