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Inter-Caste Gender Performativity in Indian Hindu Culture: A Postcolonial Gender Study in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
2023 •
Tasnim Jarin
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MEDIA'S CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY'S RESISTANCE AND EMPOWERMENT: A STUDY OF THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS
2024 •
Shodh Kosh, Roshee Vaid
This paper explores the subjects of resistance and empowerment in Arundhati Roy's novel, The God of Small Things. The study examines how characters in the book challenge oppressive systems, defy societal norms, and navigate power structures. It analyzes instances where characters find strength and agency, breaking free from the constraints imposed by society. It also emphasizes the interconnectedness of the book and the role of media. It illustrates how media contributes to characters' empowerment and how empowerment fuels further resistance. The study highlights the complex relationship between these themes, demonstrating their individual and collective dimensions. Overall, the paper provides a comprehensive overview of the study's focus on resistance and empowerment in the selected novel shedding light on characters' efforts to navigate and transcend societal boundaries while seeking personal agency and empowerment.
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A Critical Review of Syllabuses of ‘Language Across The Curriculum’ and ‘Communicative English for B.Ed Courses.
2021 •
Chandrasekharan Praveen
Recently, the National Council For Teacher Education, proposed the introduction of ‘Language Across The Curriculum’ (LAC) for secondary teacher training courses offered in India. Within years of the introduction (2015-16) of LAC, teacher educators and teacher trainees began to experience an extreme discomfort. This led the University of Calicut to withdraw the paper. But Kannur University continued to teach the paper. The investigator, a teacher educator who served in colleges affiliated to both the universities (Calicut and Kannur) collected data from practicing teachers to identify the problems faced in transacting LAC. The data collected revealed that there were plenty of problems in the very design of the paper and the mode in which it was transacted by untrained teachers. Analyzing and identifying the possible reasons for failure of LAC, led the investigator to reflect on the compulsory paper, ‘Communicative English’, prescribed for study for secondary teacher training programmes in the University of Calicut in 2005. A comparison of the syllabuses of both LAC and ‘Communicative English’ revealed that the latter has several advantages over the former, even though teaching of the latter was discontinued by the University of Calicut following the nation-wide revision of the syllabus of the Bachelor of Education (BEd) courses. A critical review of the syllabuses- LAC and Communicative English found that, despite difficulties, teacher trainees from Science and Arts streams are likely to find a greater benefit in the prescribed content of Communicative English, as it will help nurture, their communicative competence. The paper begins by listing the problems in transaction of the syllabus of LAC, and the problems noted by the investigator among teacher educators while transacting the syllabus of Communicative English. Next, the syllabuses of both the papers are compared with relation to the general objectives and expected learning outcome. Then the pros and cons of each paper is identified and listed. It is hoped that the findings will prompt curriculum developers and policy makers to refine the current syllabus of LAC and even borrow content from the syllabus of Communicative English once taught in the University of Calicut to make it learner- friendly and ensure that the proposed objectives of the paper are realized. Key words: Bachelor of Education, Communicative English, Language Across the Curriculum, Syllabus
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A Study of Marginalized Groups in Our Lady of Alice Bhatti and The God of Small Things
2022 •
Maqsood Ahmad
Muhammad Hanif and Arundhati Roy are highly appraised and representative writers of Post-Colonial era. They have been highly appreciated and criticized for their thematic concerns in their novels. Marxism can be utilized as a suitable device to break down the novels for new interpretations and it is also stressed the destructive impact of capitalism. This study mirrors struggle of lower class against upper one and unearths the miseries of those who belong to the lower strata of society. Our Lady of Alice Bhatti and The God of Small Things portray how the people belonging to the lower strata undergo marginalization. They are discriminated and exploited by the rich. They are not given the right to get educated. Muhammad Hanif and Arundhati Roy delineate the transformation of women who pass through the process of marginalization. This study explores the Marxist concerns of both the authors to find the concept of marginalization. It shows the status of women both in Pakistani as well as in Indian society. It also shows the brutality of the patriarchal society.
Journal of Women Empowerment and Studies
Gender Performativity in Inter-Caste Relationship in the Indian Hindu Culture: A Postcolonial Gender Study in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and Arundhati Roy’s the God of Small Things
Tasnim Jarin
This paper evaluates the inter-caste gender performativity in Indian Hindu Culture by analyzing the texts, Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things through Judith Butler’s concept of gender performativity. In Indian Hindu culture, inter-caste relationship is dogmatically and traditionally antagonistic whereas some autobiographical documents kept evidences of consensual and ‘non-theatrical inter-caste relationship’ crossing the margin of untouchability. Women, the gender subalterns in inter-caste consensual relationship, never inherently belong to any caste of them; rather, they are tagged off the caste of the men whoever touch them. The non-consensual inter-caste physical relationship does not determine women’s rank whereas consensual inter-caste relationship determines or modifies women’s rank. It is a double standard and both contexts are dominated by upper caste elites. The most theatrically maintained doctrine of ‘untouchability’ is the after-life...
Edumania-An International Multidisciplinary Journal
Impact Of Ambedkar’s Teachings on Community Development As Shown In The God Of Small Things
Dr. Priyanka Singla
This paper discusses the influence of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s teachings on community development in India, as depicted in Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things The novel highlights the struggle of the lower-caste population against the rigid social hierarchy prevalent in India, and how Ambedkar’s ideology of social equality and empowerment has impacted the community’s development. Arundhati Roy’s novel The God of Small Things presents a powerful depiction of the impact of Ambedkar’s teachings on community development in India. The novel portrays the lives of twin siblings, Rahel and Estha, who grow up in Ayemenem, a fictional town in Kerala. Their family, the Ipes, is part of the Syrian Christian community, which occupies a higher position in the social hierarchy than the local Dalits. However, the novel also portrays the Dalits’ plight, highlighting the systemic oppression they face, which is deeply entrenched in the social and cultural fabric of the region. This paper analyses...
International journal of english, literature and social science
‘The God of Small Things’: A Narrative of Catastrophic Misogynistic Approach
2022 •
Dr. DARKHASHA
Arundhati Roy is one of the most noted Indian novelist, essayist and activist who mainly stresses on issues related to social justice and economic inequalities. She is the writer who has created ripples round the globe by her gripping write-ups. She has been rightly awarded and bestowed with honour for her daring effort. She stands as the most controversial author amongst the clutch of contemporary Indo-Anglian writers. My simple reason for choosing her work is that I vehemently feel the contemporary critics have failed in bringing forth her true identity as a sensitive writer. She is not a traitor but a ‘world denizen with humane concern’. Her novel ‘The God of Small Things’ has harboured huge worldwide literary attention for its unique writing style and sensational story line. It is acknowledged as a complex and diverse piece of writing that incorporates varied themes such as marriage, divorce, abuse, death, alienation, gender issue, class division and political and religious conflict. The present paper deals with the kaleidoscopic inter play of relationships in the male chauvinistic society, highlighting the dominant role of elderly women whose guidance and stringent norms ruin the life of the younger female generation. The story takes the readers in its stride and enwraps them in its roller coaster ride until breathless.
A Darwinian Study of Ammu's Violent Behaviour in the 'The God of Small Things'
Muhammad Nawaz
This research intends to study the acts of violence in Arundhati Roy's debut novel The God of Small Things with special reference to the female characters. As a social and political activist, Roy has her own perception of violence that is reflected through her female characters especially through her chief protagonist Ammu, a divorced woman, who violates the social norms by having a secret love affair with an untouchable laborer. Thus all the four women in the novel, in one way or the other, evolve, adapt, resist and challenge the hegemonic powers and simultaneously modify the stereotypes about gender and violence. And by doing so, they confirm to the Darwinian approach that violence is innate in human nature, constrained by biology and concurrently embedded in culture.
BODHI International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Science
Is Posthumanism a Threat to Human Existence
2023 •
jeyaraj john sekar
This article is a comprehensive exploration of posthumanism, its relationship with humanism, and its potential consequences for human existence. It provides a qualitative analysis, outlines research questions, and offers multiple perspectives on the topic. It also highlights areas for potential future research in this field. Its central axiom is that posthumanism questions the conventional anthropocentric perspective on humanity, acknowledging that human existence is intricately intertwined with technology, the environment, and non-human entities. This prompts a reconsideration of human identity and the delineation of what it means to be human
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities
Transgression, Desire, and Death in Mai Al-Nakib’s “Echo Twins” and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
2017 •
Shahd Alshammari
