UNCUFFING HANDICAPS AND FLOURISHING: MAPPING THE TRAUMA AND THE TRIUMPH OF AN INDIVIDUAL AND A COMMUNITY IN FIRDAUS KANGA’S TRYING TO GROW

Nair Anup Chandrasekharan; Anej Somraj

doi:10.29121/shodhkosh.v4.i1.2023.1803

UNCUFFING HANDICAPS AND FLOURISHING: MAPPING THE TRAUMA AND THE TRIUMPH OF AN INDIVIDUAL AND A COMMUNITY IN FIRDAUS KANGA’S TRYING TO GROW

Authors

Dr. Nair Anup Chandrasekharan Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara, Kerala, India
Dr. Anej Somraj Assistant Professor, Christian College, Chengannur, Alappuzha, Kerala, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v4.i1.2023.1803

Keywords:

Uncuffing Handicaps, Trauma, Daryus Kotwal

Abstract [English]

Firdaus Kanga’s Trying to Grow encapsulates the story of an individual and a community living an embattled existence but showing enough grit, tenacity and resilience to take \adversity head on and survive. The Parsees like the osteogenesis imperfeacta stricken Daryus Kotwal, affectionately called Brit by his sister Dolly, because of his brittle bones, are slowly dying out with their population dipping to less than a lac. Both Daryus and his community are handicapped in more ways than one and are desperately in search of a panacea for their woes.

References

Firdaus Kanga, Trying to Grow (New Delhi, Ravi Dayal Publisher, 1990)

Nilufer Bharucha, “Reflection in Broken Mirrors ; Diverse Diaspora in Recent Parsi Fiction”, Jaydipsingh Dodiya,ed, The Fiction of Rohinton Mistry

Novy Kapadia, “The Handicapped as Survivor in Fridaus Kanga’s Trying to Grow”, The Postmodern Indian English Novel : Interrogating the 1980’s and 1990’s (Bombay : Allied, 1996)

Pallavi Gupta, “Of Brittleness and Growth : The Quest for Self in Firdaus Kanga’s Fictional Autobiography Trying to Grow,” Novy Kapadia, Jaydipsingh Dodiya, R.K Dhawan ed. Parsi Fiction.

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2023-06-30

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Chandrasekharan, N. A., & Somraj, . A. (2023). UNCUFFING HANDICAPS AND FLOURISHING: MAPPING THE TRAUMA AND THE TRIUMPH OF AN INDIVIDUAL AND A COMMUNITY IN FIRDAUS KANGA’S TRYING TO GROW. ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts, 4(1), 732–736. https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v4.i1.2023.1803

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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023): Volume 4 Issue 1 January- June- 2023

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