Subversion In Women's Fiction: Power Relations And Alienation In Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea" And Arundhati Roy's "The God Of Small Things"
Subversion in Women's Fiction: Power Relations And Alienation in Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea" and Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things"
U. Jayachandran
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Introduction
Any form of writing that upsets the rhythm of the movement of the established order in the society is subversive. John Wycliffe1 (1329- '84) is probably a pioneer of subversive writing in Europe. Mary Wollstonecraft2 (1759- '97) and John Stuart Mill3 (1806- '73) should certainly be regarded as subversive writers as their writings asked unanswerable and probably unforgivable questions on the status quo during their time. Down the Ages, there is the beat generation; angry young me like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac who shocked the world with their uninhibited and sometimes indulged articulation of the unspeakable and unwritable. The nineteen fifties and sixties marked a watershed in the course of "new writing". Postmodern......
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