Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things: An Overview

Biographical Materials

• Brief Biographical Sketch

Other works

Literary Relations

• Reviews and critical reception
• Ice-Candy-Man and God of Small Things: Some Interesting Parallels
• Comparison to Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night

Literary Techniques

• Imagery, symbolism, and motif
  • Pickles and Preserves
  • Small things

Themes

• Perfect moments

Social and Political Contexts

• Credence and Reality: On the Said and the Implied in Postcolonial Narratives -- Roy's Version of Marxist Kerala
• Social Stratification
• Colonialism and Post Colonialism

Religion and Philosophy

• Hinduism
• "Untouchables" and Syrian Christians in The God Of Small Things

Last modified 17 January 2005