This collection of essays studies the complex crisscrossing

of time, narration, tropes and cultural references

which forms the architecture of Arundhati Roy's novel

The God of Small Things. Can her particular approach be

called post-colonial or postmodern ? Is her use of the

hyperbole simply a strategy aimed at satisfying the

Western taste for exoticism ? Is her novel a plea for hybridity

or simply a sophisticated expression of binarism ?

The essays in this volume bring an important contribution

to the debate on the relationship between art, nation,

identity and desire in a post-colonial context which is

increasingly influenced by globalization.