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Parsi English Novel presents a critical study of four major Parsi novelists writing in English. The book includes the novels of Firdaus Kanga, Rohinton Mistry, Farrukh Dhondy and Bapsi Sidhwa from the view point of thematic concerns, characterization, plot structure, narrative technique and language. These major Parsi novelists delineate in their respective attempts to give the readers an idea of what make them portray their community in their fictional discourse. Little is known about the miniscule community of the Parsis in spite of their considerable and significant contribution to various facets of national life in the Indian subcontinent. The opening section of the present book provides authentic and scholarly insights into Zoroastrian faith in particular and Parsi English writing in general. All the concerns of the community declining population, brain drain, late marriages, inter faith marriages, funeral rites, attitude to the girl child, urbanization, alienation, modernist vs. traditionalist attitude to religion and the existence or non existence of ethnic anxieties are aptly delineated in the novels of Firdaus Kanga, Rohinton Mistry, Farrukh Dhondy and Bapsi Sidhwa. Jaydipsinh Dodiya has made every possible effort to explore the distinctive character of the Parsi English novel of the current era. The present book will of immense help to students, teachers and scholars who wish to study Parsi English novelists.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jaydipsinh Dodiya

Jaydipsinh Kisabhai Dodiya teaches at Smt. Surekhaben Hasmukhbhai Gardi Institute of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Saurashtra University, Rajkot.  He also taught English for eight years at Shardagram College in Mangrol.  He has presented research papers at several national and international seminars held in India and abroad.  He has edited a number of books including The Fiction of Rohinton Mistry, The Plays of Girish Karnad, The Fiction of Shobha De, Contemporary Indian Writing in English, Critical Perspectives on the Ramayana and The Novels of Rohinton Mistry.  Indian English Fiction is the area of his specialization.  He has visited Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Thailand for academic pursuits.  He is an ex-Member of Syndicate, Academic Council and Board of University Teaching of Saurashtra University, Rojkot.  He has been the Member of Senate as well as the President of Saurashtra University Teachers' Association (SUTA) for the last two terms.  For his doctorate degree he worked under supervision of Prof. Avadhesh Kumar Singh on the Parsi novelists in English with special reference to Firdaus Kanga, Rohinton Mistry, Farrukh Dhondy and Bapsi Sidhwa.  He is a research guide and now ten scholars are working with him for their Ph.D. dissertation.

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Title
Parsi English Novel
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
817625715X
Length
xii+132p.
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