Arundhati Roy: Critical Perspectives

This volume brings together several of the seminal studies on Arundhati Roy, the author of intense and absorbing fiction as well as richly thought-out non-fiction. The contributors, all widely acknowledged scholars from India and the West, problematize the varied and the West, problematize the varied yet amazingly cohering aspects of Roy’s entire oeuvre; and offer a sophisticated and incisive critique of her published work to-date. What recurringly comes under close scrutiny is the tension and strife triggered by hierarchical structures of our making; and the appropriations of individuals, communities and societies lethally trapped at the lower rungs of hierarchy under neocolonial dispensation. Sharply focused and highly perceptive, the volume makes for an arresting and delightful reading of the literary and cultural landscape of Arundhati Roy, exploring the deep and abiding concerns of one of the finest contemporary writers in English from the Indian subcontinent.