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Text as Re-telling: Such a Long Journey, the Shāhnāmah, and Preserving Cultural Identity

Panel: 
Post-Colonial Literature II
Abstract: 

The structure of Rohinton Mistry's Such a Long Journey casts the novel as a re-telling of the Shānāmah, both preventing the equation of textual representation and reality and demonstrating how re-telling functions to preserve a non-essentialist cultural identity.

Presenter Information
First Name: 
Christina
Last Name: 
Cook
Institution: 
Clemson University