Universitas Islam Negeri Alauddin Makassar Proceedings, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social and Islamic Studies (ICSIS) 2023

Font Size: 
Subaltern women in Arundhati Roy’s the God of Small Things
Nasrum Nasrum, Akrimah Azzahrah, Nurmila Sari

Last modified: 2023-07-20

Abstract


This study focuses on the representation of subaltern women in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. The study aims to discover the representation of subaltern women in The God of Small Things novel by Arundhati Roy. This study is a library study and it used qualitative method. To collect the data, the instruments used were the researcher as the main instrument and notes taken from acquired data of the object, which then analyzed with the subalternity concept of Gayatri Spivak by tracing the author’s representation on the women characters of the novel. The study found that Arundhati Roy represents female characters who live under the same discourse of patriarchy and postcolonialism, which subjugates them with layered oppression, whether racially or gender based discrimination. However, Roy also tends to give them diverse construction of voices and choices despite the muteness that they finally meet.


Keywords


Subaltern women; patriarchy; independent women; feminism

Full Text: FULL TEXT (479-497)