“For practical purposes in a hopelessly practical world…”: Towards a New Postcolonial Resistance in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

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dc.contributor.advisorTratner, Michael
dc.contributor.authorSchneider-Krzys, Emily
dc.date.accessioned2007-02-28T20:25:15Z
dc.date.available2007-02-28T20:25:15Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractAs an Indian writer writing in English, Arundhati Roy struggles to free her text from the influence of Western colonial and economic powers. Through her use of language, bodies, and performance, Roy seeks to create an alternative world in which the constructs of colonizer and colonized, First World and Third, no longer limit her. Roy’s resistance to defined boundaries is her first step towards creating such a world and takes many forms in The God of Small Things. Yet, it is only through valuing all of these forms, despite their seemingly oppositional nature, that Roy will find the means to create an alternative space in which she and her text can finally be free.
dc.description.sponsorshipBryn Mawr College. Department of English
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10066/649
dc.language.isoeng
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
dc.subject.lcshRoy, Arundhati. God of small things
dc.subject.lcshRoy, Arundhati -- Criticism and interpretation
dc.subject.lcshPostcolonialism in literature
dc.subject.lcshLanguage and languages in literature
dc.title“For practical purposes in a hopelessly practical world…”: Towards a New Postcolonial Resistance in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
dc.typeThesis
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