Studying Hybridity In Arundhati Roy's : The God Of Small Things

By termination of colonial times, an underlying aspect of independence gained attention: cultural. Many literary scholars and authors began to produce literature and theories which aimed to reflect the experiences of the people before, during, and after colonies. This phenomenon, often called ‗postc...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shoobie, Mostafa Azizpour
Format: Thesis
Language:en
Published: 2010
Subjects:
Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/41663/1/Mostafa_Azizpour_HJ.pdf
http://eprints.usm.my/41663/
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1834502367378145280
author Shoobie, Mostafa Azizpour
author_facet Shoobie, Mostafa Azizpour
author_sort Shoobie, Mostafa Azizpour
building Hamzah Sendut Library
collection Institutional Repository
content_provider Universiti Sains Malaysia
content_source USM Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
description By termination of colonial times, an underlying aspect of independence gained attention: cultural. Many literary scholars and authors began to produce literature and theories which aimed to reflect the experiences of the people before, during, and after colonies. This phenomenon, often called ‗postcolonial literature‘ touches upon several issues and themes. Hybridity is a purportedly hot commodity and a cynosure for many a man of letter in postcolonial literature and criticism. Traces of this outlook could be found in writers such as Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, Sara Suleri, and Arundhati Roy whose work responds to the multicultural awareness of their societies. This study focuses mainly on Arundhati Roy‘s 1997 novel, The God of Small Things. A pre-independence Indian saga, it adeptly conceptualizes hybridity and the tension it precipitates from three interrelated perspectives: cultural, social, and individual. Marrying theoretical propositions by Bhabha and Bakhtin, the current study intends to research into the life of peoples as reflected in the novel. It will exploit the possibilities of fusion between cultures, social castes, and individuals and will try to determine what occurs afterwards.
format Thesis
id my.usm.eprints.41663
institution Universiti Sains Malaysia
language en
publishDate 2010
record_format eprints
spelling my.usm.eprints.41663 http://eprints.usm.my/41663/ Studying Hybridity In Arundhati Roy's : The God Of Small Things Shoobie, Mostafa Azizpour H Social Sciences (General) By termination of colonial times, an underlying aspect of independence gained attention: cultural. Many literary scholars and authors began to produce literature and theories which aimed to reflect the experiences of the people before, during, and after colonies. This phenomenon, often called ‗postcolonial literature‘ touches upon several issues and themes. Hybridity is a purportedly hot commodity and a cynosure for many a man of letter in postcolonial literature and criticism. Traces of this outlook could be found in writers such as Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, Sara Suleri, and Arundhati Roy whose work responds to the multicultural awareness of their societies. This study focuses mainly on Arundhati Roy‘s 1997 novel, The God of Small Things. A pre-independence Indian saga, it adeptly conceptualizes hybridity and the tension it precipitates from three interrelated perspectives: cultural, social, and individual. Marrying theoretical propositions by Bhabha and Bakhtin, the current study intends to research into the life of peoples as reflected in the novel. It will exploit the possibilities of fusion between cultures, social castes, and individuals and will try to determine what occurs afterwards. 2010-11 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/41663/1/Mostafa_Azizpour_HJ.pdf Shoobie, Mostafa Azizpour (2010) Studying Hybridity In Arundhati Roy's : The God Of Small Things. Masters thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
Shoobie, Mostafa Azizpour
Studying Hybridity In Arundhati Roy's : The God Of Small Things
title Studying Hybridity In Arundhati Roy's : The God Of Small Things
title_full Studying Hybridity In Arundhati Roy's : The God Of Small Things
title_fullStr Studying Hybridity In Arundhati Roy's : The God Of Small Things
title_full_unstemmed Studying Hybridity In Arundhati Roy's : The God Of Small Things
title_short Studying Hybridity In Arundhati Roy's : The God Of Small Things
title_sort studying hybridity in arundhati roy's : the god of small things
topic H Social Sciences (General)
url http://eprints.usm.my/41663/1/Mostafa_Azizpour_HJ.pdf
http://eprints.usm.my/41663/
url_provider http://eprints.usm.my/