LEC052042.SETHULAKSHMI C S.POSTCOlONIAL DISCOURSE IN THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

       "The God of small things" is the confrontation between the big man and the small man which examines the social and cultural implications of the society.It presents and reveals the issues of postcolonial period.The contamination of the colonized is not their admiration for the English or their efforts to imitate them,but their incapability to belong neither teh culture of the colonized nor that of the colonizer and they experienced an identity problem.

       This book recieved the Booker prize in London in 1997.Roy is the first non-expatriate Indian author and the first Indian women to win the Booker prize.  The novel explores the themes of prohibited love and the importance of loyalty and also how the small things affect people's behaviour and their lives.It effectively cuts through the clothes of nationality,caste, and religion to reveal the bare bones of humaity.

         Roy in her novel narrates clearly how the colonized people appreciate the English culture and their considerable effort to become like them by way of imitation.Protagonists Rahel and Edtha are suffering from the great admiration of their family for the English language and culture.They obtain their love of the family if they behave in English manners and hold English values.The colonized is alienated by imitating the culture of the colonizer from their own culture.Thus  they gain a hybrid identity, a mix between native and colonial identity neither fully one nor the other.

       The novel is essentially a social document. The family in the novel shows the total submission to the colonial culture.To Roy,it is a kind of cultural commodification.She explores the fascist style of community party in Kerala,the politics of untouchability,women suppression and brutal treatment of the disregarded in postcolonial India.Readers take it as only a piece of literature meant for entertainment.So they failed to understand the message Roy wanted to convey through this novel.
Bibliography
Roy Arundhati.The God of Small Things.Harper Perennial,1997.

Surendran,K V.The God Of Small Things: A Saga of Lost Dreams.

Prasad, Amarnath.The God Of Small Things.A Tale of confrontation between Lattain and Mombatti.

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