Arundhati Roy : A Critical Elucidation

Contents: Preface. Contributors. 1. The East and the West in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things/Usha Mahadevan. 2. Feminism and gender discrimination in The God of Small Things/Amar Nath Prasad. 3. A novel of revolt against social injustice and oppression on women: a thematic analysis of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things/R.K. Mishra. 4. Dreams re-dreamed: a study of The God of Small Things/Surendra Narayan Jha. 5. Plural voices of marginality in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things/Janet Wilson. 6. Dilemmas of woman in Anita Desai’s fast5ing, feasting and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things/Veena Singh. 7. Man through a woman’s eye (I) : a study of men in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things/Lakshmi Sistla. 8. The question of influences in The God of Small Things/R.S. Sharma and S.B. Talwar. 9. The God of Small Things: a note on Roy’s sociological imagination/Ashwini Kumar Vishnu. 10. Graphic scrutiny of subaltern in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things/Meenu Dubey. 11. Dalit in The God of Small Things/M.B. Gaijan. 12. The God of Small Things: a multi-dimensional view of reality/Ruby Milhoutra. 13. Style and technique in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things/Sharad Rajimwale. 14. Linguistic inventiveness in The God of Small Things/D.K. Mandal. 15. The symbolism of “Heart of Darkness” in The God of Small Things/K.K. Gaur. 16. Art and activism: an analytical study of Arundhati Roy’s fictional and non-fictional writings in the light of Gyatri Spivak’s theory of subalternity/Shibu Simon. 17. Arundhati Roy’s The End of Imagination: an apocalyptic vision of nuclearisation/Amar Nath Prasad. 18. The God of Small Things: some literary relations/Bithika D. Sarkar. 19. The beginning is the end: anglophiles in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things/Rita Garg and Parul Tyagi. Index.

“Arundhati Roy who bagged the covetous Booker Prize for her debut novel The God of Small Things has become today an international literary figure. Her writings are being read and appreciated everywhere and they are now a matter of great literary discussion among the readers and critics of the world. The present book is a modest attempt to discuss almost all the aspects of the fictional and non-fictional works of Arundhati Roy. The contributors have explored the works of Arundhati Roy specially The God of Small Things in a very critical, analytical and comprehensive way. The book features several topics of the said novel e.g., gender discrimination, feminism, injustice and oppression on women; the east and west encounter; the plural voices of marginality; man through a woman’s eye; a note on sociological imagination; subaltern voice symbolism, style, technique, linguistic inventiveness and Roy’s apocalyptic vision of nuclearization.”