Gender Identities in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
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https://doi.org/10.17851/2317-2096.21.2.95-111Keywords:
gender, fluidity, Indian literatureAbstract
This article analyzes Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things by focusing on its questioning of gender roles. The novel contests crystallized and unitary characterizations of gender and produces more fluid and complex representations. The narrative presents characters that are associated with images of fluids and questions characteristics traditionally related to men and women, valuing the complexity of their portrayals. The novel reformulates possibilities of gender representations, questions any notion of a stable identity and thus produces destabilizing images.
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