Female Voices and Radical Motherhood in Arundhati Roy's Mother Mary Comes to Me

Arundhati Roy’s Mother Mary Comes to Me radically reimagines the figure of Mother Mary to foreground silenced female voices and challenge patriarchal, religious, and political authority. This paper examines how Roy reconstructs female subjectivity by transforming motherhood from a symbol of passive suffering into a site of resistance and political agency. Drawing upon feminist literary criticism and subaltern theory, the study explores how Roy grants voice to marginalized women whose pain, bodies, and experiences have historically been erased from dominant narratives. Through close textual analysis, the paper argues that Roy disrupts traditional representations of women by reclaiming female speech as an instrument of protest. Ultimately, Mother Mary Comes to Me emerges as a powerful feminist text that positions female voice at the centre of resistance against systems of oppression.