Her ‘Love Laws’: Political Reterritorialization of Sexuality in The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The article attempts to showcase the performativity of gender and nationality as elements a subject’s identity in heterosexual matrix. Applying Judith Butler’s theories regarding sex novel God Small Things clarifies how Ammu, most rebellious female character novel, subverts expected performative desire respectability is able go beyond limits sexuality thereby ideologies national inclusion. Her subversion imperatives reveals gaps law and, thus, turns her act into political one well. She demonstrates agency through re-territorializing ‘phallus’ further re-signifying sexual desire.