ARUNDHATI ROY’S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS: REFORMULATION OF LANGUAGE AND STYLE IN A POSTCOLONIAL SETTING

Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things is a story of partition, immigration, love and trauma. While exploring the problems of identity of her characters in a postcolonial setting in India, Roy also reformulates her characters’ use of English in an idiosyncratic way. This study, therefore, analyses The God of Small Things from the perspective of postcolonial theory in terms of linguistic and cultural hybridity. It also attempts to explore the novel as a postcolonial text that foregrounds the impacts of imperial past in partitioning the country not only into two different nations but also dividing people’s lives into two halves and leaving them to lifelong misery