THE PATCH IN THE QUILT TEXTILE METAPHORS IN ROHINTON MISTRY’S A FINE BALANCE
THE PATCH IN THE QUILT TEXTILE METAPHORS IN ROHINTON MISTRY’S A FINE BALANCE

Summary/Abstract: Inspired by Barthes’ idea of the text as a tissue of quotations, Mistry’s novel A Fine Balance is constructed around a web of textile images meant tovoffer a plead for tolerance and for the rejection of dogmatism. This paper focuses upon the ways in which this novel uses the acts of tailoring and sewing in order to shape discourses and identities though the same metaphors acquire almost opposite significances when they are transported from individual to political discourses.

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