Syed Ali Raza

Tracing the Abject: A Poststructuralist Study of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

This paper examines Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things from the perspective of Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection that she presented in her book Powers of Horror. This study contends that Roy’s novel depicts abject identities such as lower-caste Hindus, abandoned children, and a divorced mother highlighting the...