Essays about: "Arundhati Roy"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Arundhati Roy.

  1. 1. "...life had been lived" : Gender performance and woman objectification in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för didaktik och lärares praktik (DLP)

    Author : Lucia Hera Culda; [2019]
    Keywords : gender performance; Butler; postcolonialism; Roy;

    Abstract : This essay investigates women’s situation at home and in society, in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, from a gender performance perspective. The essay also explores the pedagogical implications of using the novel in the EFL classroom. READ MORE

  3. 2. Characters' Views and Perception : Hybridity and the Westerners in Two Indian Novels by Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie

    University essay from Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Pernilla Petersson; [2013]
    Keywords : Hybridity; adaptation; imitation; Indian views; alienating hybridity; half-breed; the West;

    Abstract : In the two novels, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie, characters show that their preconceptions and encounter with the Westerners play a big role in how they view Westerners and/or Indians who have adapted to or grown up with the Western lifestyle. Due to Roy’s family being a group of “Anglophiles” and liking the British, they see Sophie Mol being half-Indian as positive. READ MORE

  4. 3. Rahel : A Study of Self-Image in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

    University essay from Engelska

    Author : Emma Johansson; [2013]
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  5. 4. 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

  6. 5. Patriarchal Society : Three Generations of Oppression in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

    University essay from Institutionen för språk och kultur

    Author : Linda Tasel; [2005]
    Keywords : English language; Oppression; Engelska;

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