Rohinton Mistry: Ethnic Enclosures and Transcultural Spaces

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Rohinton Mistry is a writer of the Indian Diaspora which has come into being for political and economic reasons. Diasporic existence forces a loneliness and a sense of exile on the individual often leading to a severe identity confusion. In his first collection of short stories, Tales from Ferozsha Baag, and his three novels, Such a Long Journey, A Fine Balance and Family Matters, his engagement with the Parsi community, to which he belongs, remains a constant one, even as he goes on to expand his concerns to the wider issues of politics and society in India, and foregrounds the lives of the poor and disadvantaged with sympathy and understanding. Mistryâ€™s writing prowess has been validated by a series of prestigious awards and his often troubled journey from ethnic enclosures to wider transcultural spaces has caught the attention of readers around the world, making him one of the better known writers of the Indian Diaspora. Bharucha has explored the multiple aspects of Mistryâ€™s work, his search for identity, his need for roots, the desire for location in history and histories and his use of spatio-temporal frameworks with an insiderâ€™s perception.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nilufer E. Bharucha

Nilufer E. Bharucha is a Professor of English at the University of Bombay. Her areas of specialization are Postcolonial Literatures and Theories, the Literature of the Raj and Contemporary British Fiction and Translation. She has also published some short stories besides several academic articles. Bharucha has co-edited Indian English Fiction 1980-1990: An Assessment; Postcolonial Perspectives on the Raj and its Literature and Mapping Cultural Spaces: Postcolonial Indian Literature in English. A British Council Scholar at the University of Manchester in 1981-82 and a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow at the Queen Mary College, University of London in 1994-95, she has lectured and presented papers at several institutes and universities in Europe. Professor Bharucha has been a Visiting Professor at the Otto-Von-Guericke University, Magdeburg and the University of Cologne in Germany, the University of Barcelona, Spain and the University of Avignon, France, as well as a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Visiting Professor at the University of Siegen, Germany. She is also on the Global Faculty of the Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA.