Arundhati Roy’s Fictional World: A Collection of Critical Essays

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Arundhati Roy created ripples on the surface of Indian English fictions with her navel The God of Small Things (1997). This novel was a forceful plea for the upliftment of the downtrodden and the have-nots in Indian society. The untouchables and the women are the focal points here, and they are the two sections of our society who have suffered worst through the ages.

Arundhati Roy’s Fictional World contains a collection of twelve critical essays contributed by some eminent scholars perspective or an angle of approach of their respective authors and have a bearing on The God of Small Things and present a composite picture of its creator, highlighting both he merits and weaknesses. The book acquaints us with Arundhati Roy’s remarkable power of communication, her dynamic dexterity in coining fresh words and phrases, and her unmistakable sense of music and harmony. She is unquestionably ‘modernist’ in her approach and
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR A N Dwivedi

Amar Nath Dwivedi has taught graduate and post-graduate classes since 1965, lastly at the University of Allahabad, where he was a professor in English. Presently Dr. Dwivedi is Senior Consultant in English at U.P. Rajarshi Tandon Open University, Allahabad. A recipient of the state Bursary for four years (1961-1965), he was awarded a Teacher’s Research Grant by the ASRC (Hyderabad) in 1972. He was conferred the Ph.D. degree in 1975 for this dissertation ‘Indian Thought and Tradition in T.S. Eliot’s Poetry”, which was later published in both India and Austria with a Foreword by Professor Grover Smith of the Duke University, U.S.A. Dr. Dwivedi has published about a dozen books and seventy-five research papers and serious articles.