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History and Counterhistory
We argue in this paper that Arundhati Roy’s novel, The God of Small Things, is really an exercise in two histories, one official and the other interpretative, resulting from the writer’s sensitisation to the realities of everyday life. So for a given politics there is yet another corresponding politics, and for one particular narrative there exists a counternarrative.
We argue in this paper that Arundhati Roy’s novel, The God of Small Things, is really an exercise in two histories, one official and the other interpretative, resulting from the writer’s sensitisation to the realities of everyday life. So for a given politics there is yet another corresponding politics, and for one particular narrative there exists a counternarrative.
It can be mentioned here that a rejoinder issued by the late communist leader from Kerala, E M S Namboodiripad’s1 daughter had originally induced this study. She was irked at the apparent distortions in Roy’s rendition of Kerala’s Marxist history. So we propose to study Chapters 5, 14 and 18 of this novel.
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