Crossing the Frontiers of Marginality in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
This essay considers how Arundhati Roy’s novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness crosses the frontiers of marginality to reconfigure the relationship between centre and margin through obscene, grotesque and monstrous representations of marginalised characters. By foregrounding the perspectives of tho...
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| 格式: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 語言: | Anglais |
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Postcolonial Literatures and Arts
2025
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| 在線閱讀: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 總結: | This essay considers how Arundhati Roy’s novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness crosses the frontiers of marginality to reconfigure the relationship between centre and margin through obscene, grotesque and monstrous representations of marginalised characters. By foregrounding the perspectives of those relegated across the borders of mainstream Indian society, Roy dismantles the centre/periphery binary and proposes a counter-representation of the margins in which monstrosity becomes a vehicle for political recognition. |
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