The God of Small Things as an exposé, critique and comment on empire, neoliberalism and the repression of the subaltern society Anonymous College

Arundhati has spoken of and written a fair amount of critiques surrounding corporate globalization and the neoliberal agenda; “Confronting Empire” is just one of them. For the interest of familiarity, neoliberalism is a successor of Keynsianism and an excessive variation of Liberal democracy and Capitalism of the contemporary era. It uses the ideology of competition and “free trade” to justify its global exploitation. In his time, Karl Marx had expressed that a governmental state of this kind “fails to be a genuine locus for […] species-being,” characteristic of man who is “conscious of and concerned for others as well as self,” (Conway, 1987: 25). Roy’s portrayal of empire is no different in that she exposes it for its total disregard and disinterest for the needs of the majority of subaltern society by only serving its own interests. It is arguably true of Callinico's assertion in An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto, that neoliberalism hasn't particularly been favored by the masses although it has been designed and implemented by some of the biggest, most powerful institutions in the world, beginning with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

This essay considers Roy’s impression of empire, its relations to neoliberal...