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In Indian context.

"'Art and activism in Arundhati Roy' is a critical study of Roy's literary and artistic writings, especially of her Booker Prize winning novel 'The god of small things', from a subaltern perspective. The book, outlined in six chapters, discusses at length how Roy's writings corroborate Gayatri Spivak's famed theory of subalternity. Spivak identified the limitation of the subalterns : the subalterns cannot speak. The fictional and nonfictional characters in Roy's works delimith the problem : the subalterns do utter their thoughts aloud ; but others do not have the patience to listen to them. Besides Roy, the book studies in depth the works of Mulk Raj Anand, Toni Morrison, Mahasweta Devi and Sara Joseph - the artists of the modern generation who stood by the subalterns and the marginalized sections of the society for the "greater common good". Since Indian universities offer courses on Indian writing in English as part of their literature programmes from graduate to research levels, it is hoped that this book will greatly help the students, teachers and researchers in the discipline besides the common reader." -- book flyleaf.

Study conducted in Thrissur and Ernakulam districts in Kerala, India.