Negotiating Post-Colonial Identity In Arundhati Roy's Novels: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Abstract

This paper analyzes The Lord of Small Things, a postcolonial novel by Indian novelist Arundhati Roy, for its social and political undertones. The study adds weight to the premises of the leading thinker in this subject and evaluates Roy's work in light of the postcolonial hypothesis. Colonial and postcolonial imagery are rewritten in postcolonial scholarly publications like Roy's. The concepts that might be examined in regard to this book include orientalism, globalization, resistance, diaspora, and the position of women in Indian society. Postcolonial intellectuals Homi K. Bhabha and Edward W. Said are the authors of these concepts. The issue of women's employment in Indian society is strongly emphasized in TGST because to the abundance of female characters, including Ammu, Rahel, and others. In Ayemenem, economic development leads to change. It develops into a locally globalized region. Postcolonial resistance is a major theme in the book. When Roy speaks in English, a colonial language, she acts in a way that resists colonization itself. The children's presence, according to Roy, is a sort of resistance.