АРУНДАТИ РОЈ: МИТ И ЛАЖ
Arundhati Roy: Myth and Lie

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the writing of the Indian writer Arundhati Roy. She is compared with fellow artists-activists John Berger, Harold Pinter, and Aimé Césaire, because, like them, she has been a persistent and vocal critic of Colonialism, Imperialism and Empires, in both their past and present forms. Central to her effort has been the debunking of the political myths on which American expansionism is based, because it has destroyed the lives of millions of people throughout the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the new millennium. This political misuse of myth, brilliantly theorized by Roland Barthes in his essay Myth Today, and criticized by Arundhati Roy in her essays collected in The Algebra of Infinite Justice and The Ordinary Person’s Guide to the Empire, is contrasted with the creative use of myth, analyzed by Archetypal critics such as N Frye and Joseph Campbell, and utilized by Roy in her only novel, The God of Small Things.

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