LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 8 August 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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Ammu’s Lugubrious Tale of Alienation in Roy’s Man Booker Novel

Varun Gulati, M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D. (Thesis Submitted)

Alienation

“Alienation” is an intermediate stage and is not the end of cognitive or psychic process. Today, the word “alienation” has become an important word and almost all the contemporary authors seem to delight in finding ever different uses for it. Its transmutations have moved from the factory floor to other realms of life, ranging from mass culture to domestic labour. It informs our understanding of such diverse moments and realms as communities, identities, prejudices, popular culture, everyday life and speech and even the nature of transcendence.

“Alienation” is a term which most people understand in terms of their acquaintance with the writings of certain philosophers, psychologists and sociologists who coined the term and applied it in different ways. However, its transmutations and the emergent revolutions in the contemporary world have given a new credence and life to the concept in which old and modern discourses are replaced with post-modern perspectives.

The word lubgubrious refers to a bundle of features: “mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated or unrelieved manner” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lugubrious). Roy’s The God of Small Things displays these features in several ways.

Manifestations of Alienation in the Writings of Women Writers

The various manifestations of alienation have been largely dealt with by today’s women writers. They focus on the themes of clash between tradition and modernity, identity crisis of their protagonists, women’s quest for independence, East-West Cultural conflicts, feeling of alienation and, of course, many others.

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Varun Gulati, M.A. (English, Education), M. Phil., Ph.D. (Thesis Submitted)
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