LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 17:2 February 2017
ISSN 1930-2940

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Social Conflicts as Delineated in Arundhati Roy’s
The God of Small Things

S. Rajeshwari, M.A., M.Phil.


Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things received mixed reactions after being published in 1997. Due to the author’s Indian nationality, some critics hailed her as a female Rushdie and many critics praised Roy’s linguistic originality and inventiveness with the English language. Meanwhile, in some parts of India there were violent public riots due to its caste transgressive content, and some left-wing critics chastised Roy’s (negative) portrayal of the communist party in the novel. Apart from raising controversies as well as acclaim, Roy’s novel has also been analyzed by scholars from various theoretical angles: Feminism, Postcolonialism, Post-structuralism, Marxism, New Historicism and so on.

Postcolonial Feminist Perspective

Roy’s novel from a postcolonial feminist perspective, with a special focus on how she models different representations of women, taking as a background the discussions about subalternity and the representations of women from the so called Third World in theory and literature, as well as the concept of agency from Cultural Studies. The term subaltern, although somewhat disputed, is commonly used in a general sense to represent “subordinated classes and peoples” in short marginalized groups and the lower classes, especially in formerly colonized, Third World countries.

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S. Rajeshwari, M.A., M.Phil.
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