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Pickled histories, bottled stories: Recuperative narratives in the God of Small Things
This article explores the various ways in which The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy 1997) interrogates and rewrites versions of histories. By blurring the boundaries between the personal and the political, the novel exposes official, documented History and suggests that such History rests on and...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Journal of Literary Studies,
2001
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/006635.pdf |
| Summary: | This article explores the various ways in which The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy
1997) interrogates and rewrites versions of histories. By blurring the boundaries
between the personal and the political, the novel exposes official, documented History
and suggests that such History rests on and empowers itself at the expense of
subaltern discourses that have been (deliberately) marginalised. This article discusses
the various ways in which history, memory and silences resurface in a range of narrative
situations in the novel so that they may be remembered and rewritten. |
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| Physical Description: | p.145-160 17:3-4, |