Reading the Materiality of Caste
Focusing on the material things in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, this article examines caste and its connection to sexuality. The brahminic obsession with caste hierarchies is based on controlling women’s bodies and Dalit exclusion. In everyday life, such control over women’s bodies and D...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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| In: |
Literature and theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 4, Pages: 396-413 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism FD Contextual theology NCF Sexual ethics |
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| Summary: | Focusing on the material things in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, this article examines caste and its connection to sexuality. The brahminic obsession with caste hierarchies is based on controlling women’s bodies and Dalit exclusion. In everyday life, such control over women’s bodies and Dalit subordination is produced via material things. The practice of untouchability becomes real only when certain things/bodies are given touchable/pure status while others are assigned untouchable/abject meanings, which has repercussions for all members of society. Using thing theory and aspects of citizenship theory and brahminic culture, this article studies the ‘materiality’ through which caste is relayed and produced. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frab027 |
