http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/396/shreya-singh Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:31:38 -0400 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:31:38 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/416/the-politics-of-transgression-history-society-and-the-individual-in-postcolonial-literature By Shreya Singh - In two postcolonial novels, The God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and Secrets by Nuruddin Farah, both authors use the politics of families to paint a vivid picture of the social, cultural and political conditions of their nations. Roy and Farah both write about families where significant acts of moral and sexual transgressions take place often leading to the ruin and death of various characters in their stories. The transgressions in both the books also act as devices to portray the state of flux between history’s impositions and individual desires. However, while both authors use transgressions... Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:29 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/416/the-politics-of-transgression-history-society-and-the-individual-in-postcolonial-literature