April 1998
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54 Citations
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April 1998
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69 Reads
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54 Citations
... In her second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Roy broadens her narrative scope to include a variety of marginalized communities, such as Dalits, transgender people, and Muslims. Brinda Bose (1998), in her critique for the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, refers to the work as The God of Small Things delineates a politics of desire that is vitally linked to the politics of voice. The key is offered even before the novel is launched, in Roy's epigraph from John Berger: "Never again will a single story be told as though it's the only one." ...
April 1998