The Position of Women in Arundhati Roy’s the God of Small Things and Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day

• Authors: Asli Kutluk
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to analyse women’s state in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day. In both novels, women struggle with the world they live in because of their womanhood. Their situation can be discussed briefly in terms of Gayatri Spivak’s famous essay, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”

Keywords

EN

Anita Desai; Arundhati Roy; Gayatri Spivak; subaltern; womanhood

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 11
• Issue: Supplement
• Pages: 124-130

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2012-12-28

Contributors

author

Asli Kutluk

• Middle East Technical University 06800 Çankaya, Ankara, Turkey

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10320-012-0011-z