The Women in the Fictions of Arundhati Roy: Forming Solidarity With Other Marginalities

The Women in the Fictions of Arundhati Roy: Forming Solidarity With Other Marginalities

Jagriti Sengupta
ISBN13: 9781668465721|ISBN10: 1668465728|EISBN13: 9781668465745
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6572-1.ch012
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Sengupta, Jagriti. "The Women in the Fictions of Arundhati Roy: Forming Solidarity With Other Marginalities." Exploring Gender Studies and Feminism Through Literature and Media, edited by Gyanabati Khuraijam, IGI Global, 2022, pp. 113-120. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6572-1.ch012

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Sengupta, J. (2022). The Women in the Fictions of Arundhati Roy: Forming Solidarity With Other Marginalities. In G. Khuraijam (Ed.), Exploring Gender Studies and Feminism Through Literature and Media (pp. 113-120). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6572-1.ch012

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Sengupta, Jagriti. "The Women in the Fictions of Arundhati Roy: Forming Solidarity With Other Marginalities." In Exploring Gender Studies and Feminism Through Literature and Media, edited by Gyanabati Khuraijam, 113-120. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-6572-1.ch012

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Abstract

Arundhati Roy, the world-renowned novelist and political essayist from India, is a dominant voice against injustice perpetrated against the marginalized in the country. For her, the marginalization of women is part of a process through which social oppression is unleashed upon the weak. Roy got the prestigious Booker prize for her debut novel, The God of Small Things. The fiction brought out the unjust politics of caste and gender discrimination inherent in an orthodox society. However, after her first fiction, Roy shifted gear to non-fictions that she continued to write for almost two decades. Roy got engaged in more serious political debates and became a powerful critic of corporate globalization. In 2017, Roy published her second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. In it, Roy offered a journalistic review of all the sociopolitical events of the post-Independent India. This chapter examines that the women protagonists in Roy's fictions extend solidarity to others who are in the margins because, according to Roy, feminism should be a powerful force against oppression in general.

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