Cultural Alienation in Mistry’s Such a Long Journey

Abstract

Rohinton Mistry’s novel,Such a Long Journeycaptures the inconsistencies of Indian cultural identity not only at home but also abroad. In doing so, the text turns out to be an expression of minority culture in India showing how the major culture create a crisis in the survival of the minority. In light of the issues central to the discourse of cultural alienation with displacement and crisis, the research has traced out cultural alienation of minority culture in Mistry’s novelSuch a Long Journey.