Rohinton Mistry: An Overview

Biographical Materials

• Biography
• Chronology
• Critical Reception
• Works
  • "The More Important Things." in The Canadian Fiction Magazine, No.65, 1989
  • Tales From Firozsha Baag. London, Faber and Faber, 1987
  • Such A Long Journey. London, Faber and Faber, 1991
  • A Fine Balance. London, Faber and Faber, 1995.

Contextual Materials

• Political and Social Contexts
  • Mistry's Parsi context
  • The Parsi (Zorastrrian) heritage
• Gender Matters
  • Girl Power: Mistry's Female Characters
  • Resisting Male Violence in Three Works by Mistry, Rushdie, and Roy
• Literary Relations
  • Rushdie
    • Salman Rushdie and Rohinton Mistry: Fatal Attractions
    • Resisting Male Violence in Three Works by Mistry, Rushdie, and Roy
• History
  • Mistry's version of the Internal Emergency

Theme and Technique

• Setting
• Characterization
• Plot and Structure
• Genre and Style
  • Rohinton Mistry's Indian Neorealism: The Voice of the People
  • Sexual satire in Mistry
• Image, Symbol, and Motif
  • Hybridization, Diaspora, Being Between
• Theme and Subject
  • Mother and Son : Oedipus Wrecks

Bibliography and Related Web Resources

• The Fiction of Rohinton Mistry. Edited by Jaydipsinh Dodiya. London: Sangam Books, 1998.
• Summary of Germaine Greer's criticism of A Fine Balance during a BBC programme.

  "This is a link that I think should be included the Mistry section because of its gross injustice to the writer. Greer calls the book 'stupid' and pushes an otherwise composed writer to call her comments asinine.

Last Modified: 14 March, 2002