Author: R S Pathak
Editor(s): R S Pathak
Publisher: Creative Books
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 198
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186318844
Description
With the publication of The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy burst upon the literary stage like a nine-day wonder. Now that the media hype has subsided and the dust of critical acclaim has settled down, we are in a proper position to evaluate objectively her fictional world and art from various angles.
The essays contained in the present volume thrash threadbare various issues pertaining to Roy’s debut novel from diverse theoretical positions such as anthropology, culture studies, feminism, aucitya (Propriety), postmodernism, Marxist criticism and so on, and also throw significant light on recurrent themes, the role played by memory, Roy’s attempts to prettify the small, the question of marginality, artistic technique and stylistic features and her position as a novelist vis-à-vis Salman Rushdie.
ABOUT THE EDITOR:
The Editor of the present volume, DR R S PATHAK, formerly Professor & Head of the Department of English & Other European Languages and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Docter Harisingh Gour University (formerly University of Saugar), Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, India, is a well known scholar in the field. He obtained the degree of PhD in 1971 and of D Litt in 1986 from the University of Saugar. He was also educated at the CIEFL, Hyderabad and the University of Wales. As a British Council Scholar he went to UK for higher studies, and was appointed by the UGC as a National Associate.
Contents
PREFACE
The Fictional World of Arundhati Roy
R S PATHAK
The God of Small Things: Booker out of /and Booker?
R S SHARMA
The God of Small Things: Memory and Art
MEENA SODHI
The God of Small Things-A Study in memory and Homelessness
SANTANA SENGUPTA
Arundhati Roy’s Creative Dynamics-Prettifying the Small
AKSHAYA KUMAR
The God of Small things-A Study in Nature-Culture Opposition
M P SINHA
The God of Small Things-Cultural Dead-Ends?
K M PANDEY
Dilemma in the God of Small Things
SHANTHI SIVARAMAN
The God of Small Things-A Feminist Study
M K RAY
Sting in the Ta(i)le-Patriarchy, Caste and Politics in The God of Small Things
MANJARI SHUKLA
The Twice Damned God of Arundhati Roy
NIRMALA C PRAKASH
Margin at the Centre: A Reading of The God of Small Things
ANITA SINGH
Ayemenem-Arundhati Roy’s Literary Stage
SHARADA IYER
Reading The God of Small Things Afresh
SUDHIR KUMAR
The God of Small Things-a Postmodernist Reading
YOGESH SINHA & SANDHYA TRIPATHI
The God of Small Things-A Chiaroscuro of Light and Shade
C SENGUPTA
Similizing Imagination of Arundhati Roy
SHASHI BALA TALWAR
Reversing the Gear-A Critique of The God of Small Things
A N DWIVEDI
The God of Small Things-Art and Vision of Life
M MANI MEITEI
Neither Jam Nor Jelly-Artlessness in Art!
A G KHAN
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