Reading Arundhati Roy's The god of small things

This collection of essays studies the complex crisscrossing of time, narration, tropes and cultural references which forms the architecture of Arundhati Roy's novel The God of Small Things. Can her particular approach be called post-colonial or postmodern ? Is her use of the hyperbole simply a strategy aimed at satisfying the Western taste for exoticism ? Is her novel a plea for hybridity or simply a sophisticated expression of binarism ?

The essays in this volume bring an important contribution to the debate on the relationship between art, nation, identity and desire in a post-colonial context which is increasingly influenced by globalization.