ENG215H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rohinton Mistry, Carnivalesque, Emily Mortimer
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Born in dubai, went to school there. Supported himself by working at a bank. took night courses at u of t. won short story competition, published a collection of short stories. writes from a position of hybridized identity. Theme of way in which characters entertain the idea of leaving the community. describes characters as being split between two lives. the one in bombay and the one in toronto. A person in between spaces. open ambivalent way of de ning himself. Various opportunities to negotiate multiple identities, including one who is individual, related to family, a personal de nition of home. Squatter: a person who occupies a building or unused land. a settler with no legal title to the land occupied. points to engagement with questions of assimilating and transitioning to a new country. A posture that sarosh has to take to go to the washroom.
