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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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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 | ||||
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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Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||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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