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Contemporary Literary Theories play an important role in interrogating texts, and thus provide multiple perspectives through which a text can be examined and interpreted. The present abstract endeavours to interrogate Rohinton Mistry’s Such a Long Journey from the perspective of the Marginalized Parsi community living in India. Marginalization is a recurring theme in almost all the works of Rohinton Mistry. The term Marginalization, in the broadest sense, refers to a group of people who are at the ‘periphery’ against the ‘centre’. According to the 2011 Census conducted by the Government of India, the Parsi community is the fastest diminishing group in India. This fear of being left out from the mainstream of civilization is poignantly reflected in almost all the novels of Rohinton Mistry, in which his characters keep searching for a new identity for survival, either through emigration or by reinventing themselves through religious enlightenment. While interrogating Such a Long Journey, Bakhtin’s Dialogism and Said’s concept of otherness have been incorporated to reach at the connotative/political meaning of the text.
Dr. Prabhat Kumar. “Interrogating Mistry’s Such A Long Journey from the Perspective of the Margin.” The Criterion: An International Journal in English, vol. 17, no. 4, August 2026, pp. 318-328. DOI, https://doi.org/10.66376/criterion.v17.n4.18.
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