Abstract
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things is a novel which deals with subalternities of different kinds. Among them is the question of gender, caste and class concluding that gender is not the primary determinant of subalternity in Roy’s novel. While many of the characters are gendered this is not the primary cause. It is society and multiple power structutures simultaneously which determine the fate of the characters’ domineering roles and not their birth, essentialistically determined. It is in something else that we must find the primary cause for domination according to Roy. The dominated subalterns suffer because they are on the wrong end of the structure. So, it is the overarching power structure which is like a grid and not like a simple horizontal structure that we cannot say that Roy is a simple feminist.
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