FEMINISTIC PERSPECTVE IN ARUNDHATI ROY’S POST MODERN FICTION 'GOD OF SMALL THINGS' (Pages 46-52) by Ms. Shalini. M * and Dr. Mrs. K. B. Jasmine Suthanthira Devi ** in THE ENGLISH RESEARCH EXPRESS / ISSN:2321-1164 (Online); 2347-2642 (Print)

The current thesis attempts to study Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and a number of her selected essays as multi-voiced narratives, using Bakhtin’s concepts of dialogism, where literary and extra mythical concerns interact and inform to function as dialogues across cultures, literatures, themes, concepts, genders, genres and styles. It is posited that in Roy’s works, no voice, thinking or meaning is absolute or the only truth; truth is rather the outcome of the dialogue between a range of voices and that it is the energetic and innovative nature of language that makes truth elusive. The starting chapter gives an insight into the literature on Roy’s works and a summary of Bakhtin’s important concepts. The second chapter illustrates polyphony of hybrid voices in The God of Small Things. These voices are evaluated mainly in terms of postcolonial theory. The research paper has been attempted to explore the elements of Feminism in Arundhati Roy’s novel ‘The God of Small Things’. The paper seeks to study the work of Arundhati Roy, ‘The God of Small Things ‘as a text of ‘feminine writing’. She has delightfully and efficiently shown the trouble of women in Indian society. Arundhati has taken up the issue of feminism to fight for their identity and cost-effective and social freedom. Her female characters in the novel The God of Small Things stands out as persons and not as role-players. Through this novel, she throws light on some important things of life like how affection is always connected with sorrow, how a person’s childhood experiences affect his/her perceptions and whole life. Keywords: Marriage ceremony, sexism, associations, unresponsive and Patriarchal