The Horizon in The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy: A Poetics of Lines
The question of borders, and how they are constantly blurred, lies at the heart of The God of Small Things, not only as regards the identity of the main characters and the social boundaries of castes, but also with respect to the novel’s narrative pattern and Roy’s creative experimentations with the...
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| הוצא לאור ב: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| פורמט: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| שפה: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | The question of borders, and how they are constantly blurred, lies at the heart of The God of Small Things, not only as regards the identity of the main characters and the social boundaries of castes, but also with respect to the novel’s narrative pattern and Roy’s creative experimentations with the English language. In The God of Small Things, the horizon can be apprehended as a boundary, a line separating the land and the sea from the sky, but also joining them, since it is the place where they seemingly meet. The horizon will thus be analysed as a geometrical line in its relation to both horizontality and verticality, and also as a boundary. Although the horizon is literally absent from the novel, it becomes re-inscribed on the figurative level, and subsequently becomes a place for transgression and creation, inscribing a Deleuzean line of flight for language to follow and reinvent itself. |
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