Writing in the Necropolis: Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Tickell, Alex (2018). Writing in the Necropolis: Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Studies, 18(1) pp. 100–112.

Abstract

The article reads Arundhati Roy's second novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness in terms of a 'necropolitical' aesthetics. It problematises the differentiation of the urban terrains in the novel between 'cities of peace' and 'cities of war', and reflects on the use of the city of the dead as a linking motif.

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• Item ORO ID
• 56045
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 1474-4600
• Keywords
• Arundhati Roy; cities; Necropolis; India; literature; Delhi; Kashmir
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > English & Creative Writing
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
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• Postcolonial and Global Literatures Research Group (PGL)
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• Alex Tickell