Essays about: "feminist theory in arundhati roy s the god of small things"

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  1. 1. Arundhati Roy : Reclaiming Voices on the Margin in The God of Small Things

    University essay from Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Angelika Olsson; [2011]
    Keywords : Arundhati Roy; The God of Small Things; subaltern; postcolonial feminism; Third World women; Spivak; Can the Subaltern Speak; marginalization; Bhubaneswari; Kerala;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to critically consider Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things from a postcolonial feminist perspective, with a special focus on how she models different representations of women, taking as a background the discussions within postcolonial feminism 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. This purpose is reached by studying and comparing three main female characters in the novel: Mammachi, Baby Kochamma and Ammu, centering on their different ways of relating to the male hero of the novel, Velutha, an Untouchable in the lingering caste system of India. READ MORE