Resistance to Hegemonic Power Structure in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things: A Post Colonial Study.

Abstract

The God of Small Things is in fact an apparent replica of the on going clash and resistance of the subaltern classes against the socio-politico-cultural orthodoxy that has been spreading over the post colonial Indian world by inspiring a pernicious hegemony and the power structure. It advocates the need to dismantle the root of social institutions by making a strong disruption and a discontinuity of the detrimental taboos. Arundhati Roy strengthens the voice of protest against the western ideological truths by providing apraiseworthy role to the people of the subaltern classes mainly the women and out-caste characters as Ammu and Velutha , who have functioned being in the central narrative of the novel.