Arundhati Roy as a Transmodern Intellectual. Gender Troubles, Ethnic Conflicts and Vulnerable Ecology

This article adopts a transmodernapproach to Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happinessand it contends that Roy’s fusion of anti-global activism, typical of her non-fiction writings, and literary imagination, reminiscent of Indian epic texts, can provide an interesting instance of a transmodern intellectual perspective. In particular, by examining gender troubles, ethnic conflicts and vulnerable ecology, my article argues that Roy’s second novel refracts the decolonial/postcolonial debateby means of a hybrid narrative form.This interplay between creative writing and intellectualactivism can be said to chime with transmodern ethics in that it promotes attentiveness to the perspective of the most marginalised.