Introduction: The term nationalism can be traced as byproduct of colonialism. It is terms as a postcolonial phenomenon, nation and nationhood which are highly ambivalent and ambiguous in the context of globalization and imagination. The nationalism, transnational’s and transmigration these ideas are inevitably linked to geopolitical entities like nation states and nationhood. The formations of nation and subsequent reformations have undermined the nations of stability and fixity.
There was a turning point in the lives of Parsi at the time of colonization of India by British Raj. Many of them associated themselves with the British Raj as well as western Language. And their way of life mode is imprints on the Parsi. So, the identification of …show more content…
We have to take a glimpse of the historical and political transformations taking places in the then Bombay and across the nation of India during 1970’s, 1980,s and 1990’s. It must be clearly understood that the Mistry’s work is informed by deepening anxiety over these socio-political transformations and diaspora subject, outside of definitions of national identity. National historical aspects are especially concerned to the lives of Parsi community in pre-and post-independence India. It can be more appropriate to understand the characters in the story, “One Sunday” from collection. So the national political aspects are integrates into the main plot of his narrative. Mistryhas recreated the national political aspects through his fictional works. It has implicated or reflected by Mistry’s point of in the form narration. So, the narrators in the fiction are the personalities, they were presented of that time. It is the central theme of Mistry’s …show more content…
He migrated to Canada at the age of twenty three. But he returned to India through themes and subject matter in all his works. Mistry’s life and writing not only challenge all attempts to categorize but also highlight the futility categorizes. He has been written four novels and a short - stories collection known as Tales from Firozsha Baag etc. Such a long Journey is one of the four main novels of Mistry. It is about the life and career of the migrant writer belonging to a people who had wandered a long way a long time ago. Mistry’s concept of Nationalism is characterized as fragmentation and dissolution. He is acutely conscious of the breaking of walls. There was a fence in a Parsis community from the outside world or political boundaries. It has been drawn between India and Pakistan or India or China. So, the nationalisms are redrawn as is evident in the partition of India and Later the partition of Pakistan into another nation as Bangladesh. A reading of Mistry’s Such a Long Journey is a Parsis vision of Indian nationalism. It becomes all the more interesting and significant against this background. The novel is not only a fiction of about the life of Parsis in India but also all the major characters Gustad Noble, and his family Dinshwaji and Major Jimmy Billimoria are Parsis. The Parsis Community is created in the perception of writer as a marginal group. It is design within the Indian mindset significantly the novel
There was a turning point in the lives of Parsi at the time of colonization of India by British Raj. Many of them associated themselves with the British Raj as well as western Language. And their way of life mode is imprints on the Parsi. So, the identification of …show more content…
We have to take a glimpse of the historical and political transformations taking places in the then Bombay and across the nation of India during 1970’s, 1980,s and 1990’s. It must be clearly understood that the Mistry’s work is informed by deepening anxiety over these socio-political transformations and diaspora subject, outside of definitions of national identity. National historical aspects are especially concerned to the lives of Parsi community in pre-and post-independence India. It can be more appropriate to understand the characters in the story, “One Sunday” from collection. So the national political aspects are integrates into the main plot of his narrative. Mistryhas recreated the national political aspects through his fictional works. It has implicated or reflected by Mistry’s point of in the form narration. So, the narrators in the fiction are the personalities, they were presented of that time. It is the central theme of Mistry’s …show more content…
He migrated to Canada at the age of twenty three. But he returned to India through themes and subject matter in all his works. Mistry’s life and writing not only challenge all attempts to categorize but also highlight the futility categorizes. He has been written four novels and a short - stories collection known as Tales from Firozsha Baag etc. Such a long Journey is one of the four main novels of Mistry. It is about the life and career of the migrant writer belonging to a people who had wandered a long way a long time ago. Mistry’s concept of Nationalism is characterized as fragmentation and dissolution. He is acutely conscious of the breaking of walls. There was a fence in a Parsis community from the outside world or political boundaries. It has been drawn between India and Pakistan or India or China. So, the nationalisms are redrawn as is evident in the partition of India and Later the partition of Pakistan into another nation as Bangladesh. A reading of Mistry’s Such a Long Journey is a Parsis vision of Indian nationalism. It becomes all the more interesting and significant against this background. The novel is not only a fiction of about the life of Parsis in India but also all the major characters Gustad Noble, and his family Dinshwaji and Major Jimmy Billimoria are Parsis. The Parsis Community is created in the perception of writer as a marginal group. It is design within the Indian mindset significantly the novel