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What genre best describes The God of Small Things?

AScience fiction

BHistorical fiction

CPostmodern novel

DMystery thriller

Answer:

C. Postmodern novel

Read Explanation:

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy is considered a postmodern novel: 

  • Narrative structure

    The novel features a fragmented plot, multiple viewpoints, and intertextuality, which are all characteristic of the postmodernist movement. 

  • Postmodernist devices

    The novel also uses black humor, metafiction, and irony. 

  • Postcolonial themes

    The novel explores the repercussions of colonial influence on the characters and the clash between tradition and modernity. 

  • Gothic conventions

    Roy uses Gothic conventions like dark imagery, the supernatural, and incest to personalize the cultural horrors of India. 

  • Postmodernist response to modernism

    Postmodernism is a reaction against modernism, which was characterized by logic and objectivity, while postmodernism is characterized by randomness and subjectivity. 


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