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VOL. 7, ISSUE 5 (2021)
The new subaltern in arundhati roy’s “The ministry of utmost happiness”: Gendered spaces captured
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Sourav Santra
Abstract
Arundhati Roy is an internationally acclaimed Indian female writer in contemporary times. After winning the Booker prize in 1997 for her debut novel “The God of Small Things”, she got her renowned fame, and almost after 20 years she published “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”. Where she tried to depict all the castaways of the subcontinents under one roof. The novel is endured by hijras, political rebels, the poor, women who don't know their place, and abandoned baby girls; it seems to articulate a post-Colonial nation’s history from the perspective of the marginalized. Anjum, a hijra, Saddam Hussain, a Dalit, Mulaqat Ali, a doctor of herbal medicine, and Tilottama, a maverick young woman, are among the main characters in the extensive narrative skills whose tales intertwine within the text. The storyline of the novel explores everybody and everything happening in the rapidly changing India, on the other way emphasis on gender issues, gender discrimination, caste equality, capitalization, and many things of socio-political issues considered. Thus, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is spontaneous and undoubtedly a paroxysm of the author's observation of the ‘New Subaltern’ who are victims of social and political injustice. Hence, this paper aims to rejuvenate Roy’s depiction of the ‘New Subaltern’ in the present-day democratic Indian scenario through the post-colonial context.
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Pages:22-24
How to cite this article:
Sourav Santra "The new subaltern in arundhati roy’s “<em>The ministry of utmost happiness</em>”: Gendered spaces captured ". International Journal of English Research, Vol 7, Issue 5, 2021, Pages 22-24
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