Her ‘Love Laws’: Political Reterritorialization of Sexuality in The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Journal Title: International Journal of Social Science And Human Research - Year 2022, Vol 5, Issue 12
Abstract
The article attempts to showcase the performativity of gender and nationality as elements of a subject’s identity in a heterosexual matrix. Applying Judith Butler’s theories regarding sex and gender to the novel The God of Small Things clarifies how Ammu, the most rebellious female character of the novel, subverts the expected performative desire of heterosexual respectability and is able to go beyond the limits of sexuality and thereby beyond the ideologies and performativity of national inclusion. Her subversion of imperatives reveals the gaps in the law and, thus, turns her act into a political one as well. She demonstrates political agency through re-territorializing ‘phallus’ and further through re-signifying her sexual desire.
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Leila Khalili, Hossein Alidoustestalaki
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- EP ID EP712351
- DOI 10.47191/ijsshr/v5-i12-92
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