Abstract: Arundhati Roy burst onto the literary firmament in 1997 with her debut novel The God of Small Things and also won the prestigious Booker Prize the same year. A compelling tale of a pair of dizygotic twins and their mother at variance in a dystopian world that presages a deep darkness, her book is also a severe indictment of the way the world treats women. In the novel, Roy deals with issues that confront women at an everyday level: Issues like domestic violence, inheritance laws skewed heavily in favour of men, social taboos and sexual abuse. Roy has explored the overlapping and intricately braided lives of Ammu, her daughter Rahel, Mammachi, Baby Kochamma and their cook Kochu Maria particularly in relation to the dominant order that dictates their familial, social and cultural histories.
Keywords: Severe indictment, domestic violence, social taboos, sexual abuse, dominant order.
Title: The Gender Predicament: Representation of the Contemporary Woman in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Author: Shahnaz Mansingh
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3164 (online), ISSN 2348-3156 (Print)
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