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ARUNDHATI ROY’S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS : NARRATIVE DISCOURSE AND LINGUISTIC EXPERIMENTS
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Author(s):
ABHILASHA , DR. SUMER SINGH
Vol - 4, Issue- 3 ,
Page(s) : 791 - 802
(2013 )
DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/CASIRJ
Abstract
Arundhati Roy in her first novel The God of Small Things shows her ingenuity in both narrative management and market management by making it the most materialistic and popular novel of the decade. By bagging the coveted Booker Prize of 1997, making the media and the academia the world over hysterical about it she has established the fact that a novelist has to be skilled not only his/her own craft of novel writing but also in publicity and market management. Perhaps the old days of Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan and M.R. Anand have gone. Now P.R.O factor plays an important role in making a writer. Most of the high profile novelists hire the services of professional agents in the world market. Roy caught the nerves of the time and her novel proved ‘luckier’ than what luck itself could have expected.
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- Aijaz Ahmed, 'Reading Arundhati Roy Politically', Frontline, 8th August, 1997, p. 108.
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (New Delhi, Indiaink; 1997). All further references from this book are indicated by Page No. in parentheses.
- Beth Yahp in her review, 'Larger than Life,' admires Roy's 'verbal wizardy.' vide C.V. Driesen's paper entitled 'When Language Dances: The Subversive Power of Roy's Text in The God of Small Things' in Arundhati Roy. The Novelist Extraordinary, R.K. Dhawan (ed.) (Prestige, 1999) 375. Note 1.
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- Rao, Ranga. "The Booker of the year", The Hindu Magazine, Nov. 23, 1997, Arundhati Roy in it says that "My book is not the best book... It is the luckier book".
- Rev. Prof. C.D.N., The Literary Criterion, Vol. XXXII, 1997.
- Srinivasan, Kannamal. 'The Future Memory and the Metaphysics of Technological Space" Text in Flux as Narrative Strategy in The God of Small Things" 50 Years of Indian Writing (ed.) R.K. Dhawan, New Delhi: IAES, 1999.
- The Empire Writes Back, 53-54. Bill Ashcroft et al. refer to the use of such local terms as 'obi' (hut), 'kurta' (shirt) etc. in post-colonial texts. Moreover, they also show how in an extract from The Cord, a play by the Malaysian writer K.S. Maniam "the english variant establishes itself in clear contradistinction to the 'Standard' within the dialogue itself." s/10. Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literatures in English, Vol. I (Routledge, 1994) 333.
- Vide The God of Small Things: A Saga of Lost Dreams, 192.
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