This essay uncovers how trauma and new materialism reveal agency in subaltern beings, suggesting new forms of solidarity.
Braiding new materialism, postcolonial theory, and trauma theory, this essay reads Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things as a more-than-human landscape of solidarity wherein subaltern humans and things bear embodied and active witness. These networks subvert the powers of oppressive systems, allowing for alternate conceptions of agency, repair, and language.
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