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Volume : III, Issue : IV, May - 2013 DELINEATION OF FEMALE ETHOS IN ROHINTONMISTRY'STALES FROM FIROZSHABAAG DISHA KHANNA Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : RohintonMistry's, a Post-Colonial writer is a Parsi Zoroastrian and as a
person whose ancestors were enforced into exile by the Islamic conquest of Iran, he was
in Diaspora even in India. Like other Parsi playwrights, his high-quality fiction, Tales
from FirozshaBaag(1987) is a collection of 11 short stories by RohintonMistry about the
residents of FirozshaBaag, a Parsi-dominated apartment complex in Mumbaiwhich
possesses of a recurrent theme of double displacement. The present research paper
endeavours to exhibit the female characters in Mistry's novels. Females are considered
to be house-bound and completely domesticated. They were often subjected to what has
been called as double colonization, whereby they were discriminated against not only for
their position as colonized people but also as subjugated women. TFFB is replete with
depiction of female ethos, whose roles are determined and dogged, to some extent, by
social conventions. By attending to the social milieus of his female characters' lives from
a feminist perspective, this exploration examines the ways Mistry interprets the
situations of women-their experiences, histories, and responsibilities as wives, widows,
mothers, and single women-within the cultural preface of Parsi India. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : DISHA KHANNA, (2013). DELINEATION OF FEMALE ETHOS IN ROHINTONMISTRY'STALES FROM FIROZSHABAAG. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. IV, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2315.pdf References : - Ahmad, AijazIn Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures. New York: Verso, 1992. Print
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