Critical Race Theory in The God of Small Things Sex and race are always useful and mentioned with intention in texts. In Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things there is a clear intention to the use of sex and race to keep and rid of the main key characters in the novel. The character or characters who engage in unlawful sexual acts are punished while unwanted or undesired race is purged. In this Indian society that worships England‚ Love Laws‚ and the Caste System race and sex creates intra-racial
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WATER RESOURCES What are water resources? Water resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially useful to humans. It is important because it is needed for life to exist. Many uses of water include agricultural‚ industrial‚ household‚ recreational and environmental activities. Virtually all of these human uses require fresh water. Only 2.7% of water on the Earth is fresh water‚ and over two thirds of this is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps‚ leaving only
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1. What is “postcolonial literature”? Postcolonial literature‚ a category devised to replace and expand upon what was once called Commonwealth Literature. As a label‚ it thus covers a very wide range of writings from countries that were once colonies or dependencies of the European powers. There has been much debate about the scope of the term: should predominantly white ex‐colonies like Ireland‚ Canada‚ and Australia be included? why are the United States exempted both from the accepted list of
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fiction. Creations: Shalimar the Clown‚ Indochine: Stories‚ Shaken and Stirred‚ Global Lab‚ The Enchantress of Florence‚ Step Across This Line‚ Fury‚ Haroun& The Sea Of Stories‚ East‚ West and The Moors Last Sigh. * Arundhati Roy: Arundhati Roy is a world renowned Indian writer in English. She was born on November 24‚ 1961 in Shillong‚ Meghalaya. The super success of her novel The God Of Small Things put her on the global
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Christopher Barzak Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Milke White Oleander by Janet Fitch Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy The World Doesn’t End by Charles Simic North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley The Fault in
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The three texts I have studied are ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ ‘The God of Small Things’ by Arundhati Roy and ‘If I Could Tell You’ by W. H. Auden. Within each text the poet or author uses structural and linguistic devices to tell the story and also outline the importance of the message given in a key event. In ‘The Great Gatsby’ an effective event to portray structural and linguistic devices is that of Chapter 2. Within this chapter Fitzgerald demonstrates the difference of worlds
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Post colonialism should be referred to as the legacies of colonialism and not the end of colonialism. British interests in Indian languages arose from the necessity to cultivate the medium of intercourse between the government and its subjects. Lord Macaulay minute on Education 1835 very clearly signifies his agenda that is the Dissemination of the English language and English culture. The Englishmen wanted a class of persons who can act as interpreters between them and their subjects. People
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people are still living in the medieval age‚so far as the issue of women is concern. in this grim scenario‚we have any examples that encourage us to fight for the cause.late Kalpana Chawla did india proud by joining NASA as an astronaut.Arundhati Roy‚Shoba De and Anita Pratap are celebrated writers.We can recall the names of Sushma Swaraj‚Maya wati‚Sonia Gandhi an other political figure in india.women are pilots‚engineers‚doctors‚researchers and businesswomen.they are giving better results than
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Aravind Adiga is an Indian writer and journalist. His debut novel‚ The White Tiger‚ won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the prize‚ after Salman Rushdie‚ Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai. (V. S. Naipaul‚ another winner‚ is of Indian origin‚ but was not born in India.) He has written many short stories‚ essays‚ and published 3 books so far; namely‚ The White Tiger‚ Between the Assassinations‚ and Last Man in Tower. Be it essays or novels‚ the ‘Indian’ setting
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institutions which are recognised as acceptable. Consequently a transgression occurs‚ breaking through either traditional or modern values towards personal ideals of worth‚ freedom‚ love and happiness. The text The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy captures this transgression through the social constructs of the 1960’s post-colonial Indian context‚ female under patriarchal suppression and the defiance of stereotypical gender roles. The movie The Piano‚ directed by Jane Campion in 1993‚
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