El Ministerio de la Felicidad Suprema: La Resistencia Subalterna (original) (raw)

The notion of the Subaltern subject is foregrounded at different instances within the novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017) by Arundhati Roy. In this essay, we will focus on gender and language since the treatment of those aspects in this text highlights the marginalisation of post-colonial societies. In order to discover how the author constructs the resistance of the Subaltern, we will explore concepts such as hybridization, the Other, double-colonisation, heteronormative societies, and the analysis of in-between identities. The theoretical background will be provided by different authors, for instance Gayatri Spivak, Bill Ashcroft, Homi Bhabha, Ritu Tyagi, among others.