Web of threats: Commissure of Power and politics inFamily Matters

Abstract

Rohinton Mistry, a Parsi novelist represents his community through his writings. Apart from treating Parsi theme, he also highlights the historical incidents in hi snovels. His Family Matters is a novel with a difference. Traditional historians consider literature and history as two entirely different pots having different ideologies. While the New Historicists analyse the literary text with an eye to history and explore the interplay between text and historical context. The present paper attempts to read the novel Family Matters in a new historicist perspective. Keywords: Rohinton Mistry, Power and Politics, Family Matters,