The Architecture of Patriarchy and the Strategies of Subaltern Resistance in Indian English Literature
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submissive Indian female. The postcolonial.Catastrophic consequences, subversive historical memoryAbstract
This paper examines the difference and the complementariness of the strategies adopted by the modern Indian English novelists – Arundhati Roy and Namita Gokhale – when they challenge the pervasive power structures of patriarchy. Roy's novels, especially The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, reveal through the postcolonial and systemic perspective the catastrophic consequences of exclusion
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Bose, Bidyut, and Mohd InamUl Haq. "Social Exclusion: A Subaltern Perspective in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness." The Creative Launcher, vol. 7, no. 6, 2022, pp. 165-170.
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