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- Title
Resisting Patriarchy- A Study of the Women in The God of Small Things.
- Authors
Bobby, Chippy Susan
- Abstract
The God of Small Things depicts the social reality in the last few decades where organized movements to raise the consciousness of women began. There has been a very strong resistance to harassment, cruelty and discrimination against women, finding an organized expression for assertion of rights. The women in The God of Small Things are depicted as victims by the forces of history, dead convention, false pride, the tyranny of the state and the politics of opportunism and andocentric order. They stand for those women who are aspiring for freedom and equality, challenging traditional ideas and conventions. This idea is brought out clearly by the author in portraying a slow but definite assertion of confidence in the women in the novel, with every passing generation. This defiance of the social, political, sexists and casteist prejudices that society conforms to make the novel end on a promising note-the promise of a better 'naaley' - tomorrow.
- Subjects
GOD of Small Things, The (Book); WOMEN in literature; CRIMES against women; WOMEN'S rights in literature; SEX discrimination against women
- Publication
Language in India, 2012, Vol 12, Issue 10, p490
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Literary Criticism