Thanks so much for passing on that review by Kalpana Wilson, Yoshie!
It made me want to go back to read the book again (which didn't
excite me that much-- perhaps in reaction to the hype) now that I'm
beginning to understand a bit more about left history in India.
michael
At 06:49 16/04/2007, Yoshie wrote:
It's likely that many Westerners who loved The God of Small Things
simply loved it for it fit stereotypes they already had in their minds
about women in India, castes and classes in India, Communism in India
and everywhere else, etc., as you and Toor say. I really don't want
this to be the first -- let alone the only -- novel about India that
Westerners read. But some Indian leftists got other things out of it.
A lot depends on who reads it, and what the reader knows about and
thinks of India, the CPI(M), etc.
<http://cpiml.org/liberation/year_1998/january/books.htm>
Arundhati Roy and the Left:
For reclaiming 'small things'
Kalpana Wilson
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