Revolutionary love and the romance of resistance
Broken Verses, The Lowland, The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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The second chapter addresses the intersection of romance and resistance in four novels: The God of Small Things, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Broken Verses and The Lowland. Each of the four texts features a heterosexual couple whose amorous trajectory is intertwined with public acts of resistance, including (in the case of three of the four novels under discussion) violent militancy. The chapter examines the construction of the activist identity of the female and male characters and assesses the extent to which the depiction of female activism in the four novels is shown to be informed by gendered imperatives, notably those pertaining to romance, beauty, the institution of marriage, and motherhood. The chapter also considers whether the romantic relationship itself can be read as an act of resistance which challenges gendered roles and other hierarchies.

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