ARUNDHATI ROY’S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS: REFORMULATION OF LANGUAGE AND STYLE IN A POSTCOLONIAL SETTING
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Arundhati
Roy’s The God of Small Things is a
story of partition, immigration, love and trauma. While exploring the problems
of identity of her characters in a postcolonial setting in India, Roy also
reformulates her characters’ use of English in an idiosyncratic way. This
study, therefore, analyses The God of
Small Things from the perspective of postcolonial theory in terms of
linguistic and cultural hybridity. It also attempts to explore the novel as a
postcolonial text that foregrounds the impacts of imperial past in partitioning
the country not only into two different nations but also dividing people’s lives
into two halves and leaving them to lifelong misery.
Anahtar Kelimeler
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