Dead men tell no tales : traumatized male bodies in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things.

• Main Author: Sofia Begum Mohammad Sultan.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52211
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The institutions within which the characters in the novel are located favour or give emphasis to the feminine bodies, empowering them in the narrative. Several male bodies in the novel are broken and split, silenced in the process, removing them completely, making the novels’ presentation of history...