Avishek Chaudhury Assistant Teacher in English, Midnapore Collegiate School , Midnapore, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal. In the recent post-modern Indian English fiction there are radical changes in the writers’ outlook on socio-cultural matters. Radical changes have been seen in almost all the areas of literature challenging the basic foundations and beliefs and bringing under merciless…
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Hybridity, Marginalization and the Politics of Transgression in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Vandita Liddle Research Scholar University of Allahabad ‘The God Of Small Things’, is written in the postcolonial Anglophone by Arundhati Roy. The adjective ‘postcolonial’, signifies the fact that the novel or any other genre of writing, transcends the peripheries of locality, region and nation, to emerge in the global scenario, proceeding the aftermath of colonization….
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: Conflict between the Marginalized and the Privileged
A.K. Chaturvedi Associate Professor of English S.L.P. Govt. P.G. College Morar, Gwalior-474006, MP Since the time immemorial, a wide divide between the rich and the poor, the centre and the periphery, has been the bane of social set up. Modern times in particular are a mute witness to the widening gap between the mighty and…
Patriarchal Suffocation of Women: A Study of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Dr. M. R. Chandran Associate Professor, Centre for Research in English Saraswathi Narayanan college, Madurai-22,Tamil Nadu, India. & Ms. B. Sujatha Assistant Professor of English, C.R. College of Engineering, Alagarkoil, Madurai – 625 301. Tamilnadu, India. Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things unfolds the subjective politics which has ordered the subjucation of women…
The Relationship of the Siblings in Danielle Steel and Arundhati Roy’s Novels:A Comparative Study
B.Abirami Ph.D. Scholar Department of English Anna University, Chennai Tamilnadu. & Dr.S.N.Mahalakshmi INTRODUCTION Literature extracts the innermost feelings of both the reader as well as the writer and the chore of literature is to entrust a positive thought to the readers. It is the task of literature to involve the readers into the work and…
Women as the Oppressed In The God of Small Things
Silima Nanda Deputy Director, International Division Indira Gandhi National Open University Orissa Arundhati Roy is an acclaimed post-colonial Indian novelist to have bagged the Booker prize for her seminal work ‘The God of Small Things” which was published in 1997. In this novel she beautifully studies the predicament of Indian women against the setting of…
The Wretched of India: The Socio-cultural Space for the Untouchables in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Dr. Safiul Islam M.A., B.Ed., PGDL, Ph.D. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh-202002, INDIA. Like racism which is the fundamental factor in dividing people in European history, the caste system, a deep-rooted factor hindering the integration of people in India, affects the socio- economic and socio-cultural system of Indian society. The most unwanted and exploited ones are…