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