The servant's betrayal : the oppression of South Asian servant figures and it's potential solutions in the white tiger and the god of small things

• Main Author: Terrina Kaur Sandhu
• Other Authors: Sim Wai Chew
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::History::Asia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62747
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The discussion of servants in literature has largely been limited to European servants. South Asian servants are hardly explored as servant figures, and rather, tend to fall under the category of “subaltern,” thus homogenising their oppression with that of every other subaltern. Gayatri Spivak asser...