Postcolonial Legacy of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things.

Abstract

This paper examines Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things through a postcolonial lens, focusing on the themes of cultural hybridity, mimicry, and marginality. This novel set-in postcolonial India that disturbs binary notions of colonialism by exploring the relationships between the colonizers and the colonized particularly in the context of the caste system and gender roles. Roy work challenges the oriental discourse of Europeans and highlights the struggles of marginalized groups which includes the Untouchables and upper-class women. This analysis examine into the ways in which Roy's novel revoke the privileged center exploring the intersections of feminism, caste segregation, and untouchability. Ultimately this paper reveals how The God of Small Things analyses the social and religious constitutions of gender and castes which revel the power dynamics that punish violation and silence marginalized voices.