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Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness as New Urban Gothic

Author : Molly Slavin

Published in: The New Urban Gothic

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Slavin looks at the way in which Arundhati Roy demarcates the cities into areas—the colonial and the postcolonial. Arguing that she deliberately writes her protagonists as ‘out of place’, Slavin follows Roy’s protagonists as they reinvent Gothic tropes for the twenty-first century. Questioning ideas of home, Slavin argues that the novel is an example of the urban Gothic trope that enables contemporary Indian urban issues such as inequality and violence to be explored. With an unusually optimistic tone, Slavin argues that The Ministry of Utmost Happiness uses the new urban Gothic sites of Delhi and Srinagar to translate colonial and Gothic conventions for productive, justice-oriented purposes in contemporary South Asian cities.

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Metadata
Title
Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness as New Urban Gothic
Author
Molly Slavin
Copyright Year
2020
Book
The New Urban Gothic

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-43776-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-43777-0

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43777-0_11