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Youngsuk Chae (2015) Postcolonial ecofeminism in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things,
This article foregrounds Arundhati Roy’s postcolonial ecofeminist perspective in her novel The God of Small Things (1997). Roy has become recognized as an environmental and political activist through her criticism of postcolonial India’s mal- development. Although she is cynical about state-sponsore...
| Format: | Printed Book |
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Journal of Postcolonial Writing,
2015
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| Accés en línia: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/006643.pdf |
| Sumari: | This article foregrounds Arundhati Roy’s postcolonial ecofeminist perspective in her
novel The God of Small Things (1997). Roy has become recognized as an
environmental and political activist through her criticism of postcolonial India’s mal-
development. Although she is cynical about state-sponsored development projects,
her criticism is focused not on the idea of development per se, but on the hierarchy
of dualisms that legitimizes the exploitation of nature by the human, of women by
men and of the oppressed by the powerful. The God of Small Things interrogates
the ways such hierarchies operate through mechanisms such as patriarchical
ideology and an apparently rational economic logic. Roy’s critique of environmental
exploitation in postcolonial India reveals the interconnectedness of ecological
deterioration and oppression based on gender, class and race. Such exploitation calls
for an examination of postcolonial environment issues from an ecofeminist
viewpoint. The convergence of postcolonialism with ecofeminism – what is here
called postcolonial ecofeminism – is exemplified in Roy’s novel |
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| Descripció física: | p.519-530, 51:5 |