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Trauma-Language Relationship in Arundhati Roy’s undefinedThe God of Small Thingsundefined
(2014) Nediceyuva, Funda; Süner, Mustafa Ahmet
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things is about how seemingly small events can result in major tragedies which radically change peoples' lives. The novel aims to recreate the traumatic experiences of the characters for the reader. The main elements used in order to recreate trauma in the novel are the depiction of time and language. While telling her story, the author uses specific literary and stylistic devices such as the use of Malayalam dialect, ungrammatical capitalization, repetitions, flashbacks, intertextual elements, and children's language. The irregular use of language and non-sequential time in the novel allows readers to experience the characters' traumas. What is aimed in this thesis is to analyze Roy's use of time and language while the depicting various traumas that the novel's characters go through. It is proposed that Roy mimics the post-trauma experiences of trauma victims through the novel's language. In order to achieve this, the novel does not use the literary styles of conventional literary texts. Roy toys with the order of the events, discards a reliable narrator, and uses word-plays extensively. Thus, she mimics the disorientation of the traumatized characters through the novel's language. Keywords: Trauma, language, time, contemporary Indian Literature ,intertextuality