reliving the past:the study of Amitav Ghosh novels
SUMMARY
Amitav Ghosh can be seen as the flag bearer of the fearlessness and freedom that the contemporary Indian writer in English embodies. Although
Salman Rushdie is the pioneer who put the post colonial scene on the literary map, yet Amitav Ghosh has become one of the central figures to emerge after the success of Rushdie`s Midnight`s Children. Yet when compared to Rushdie, published criticism on Ghosh is not very substantial. Most of the critical essays are limited to his more popular fictional works like The Shadow Lines, In an
Antique Land and The Calcutta Chromosome. Ghosh is one writer who combines history with a very contemporary vision of a world free of discrete cartographical divisions. The advancement in electronic technology, instant communic ation and networking, a proliferation of global television channels has to a great extent dissolved all kinds boundaries and br ought the world a lot closer. Amitav
Ghosh`s prime thematic concern likewise is using the travel motif to create a neutral space where barriers dissolve and borders are blurred. It is precisely this cosmopolitanism which makes today`s Indian novelist stand at par with
and not
separate from global writers of English. More over the constant concern with the subaltern who`s lost in the annals of history, endears him to the readers. The immense amount of research that he puts in to his works is woven beautifully in a blend of generic expectations making them perfect encasements for the prominent thematic concerns of contemporary Indian literary world. A critical study of the prime thematic concerns of Amitav Ghosh`s novels is thus an opportunity not just to peruse a substantial body of work that meditates up on a core set of issues concerning post colonialism in the contemporary fiction al writing with special focus on the marginalised subaltern; but also to view history with a novel perspective. The proposed research work, is an attempt to make a thematic
Amitav Ghosh can be seen as the flag bearer of the fearlessness and freedom that the contemporary Indian writer in English embodies. Although
Salman Rushdie is the pioneer who put the post colonial scene on the literary map, yet Amitav Ghosh has become one of the central figures to emerge after the success of Rushdie`s Midnight`s Children. Yet when compared to Rushdie, published criticism on Ghosh is not very substantial. Most of the critical essays are limited to his more popular fictional works like The Shadow Lines, In an
Antique Land and The Calcutta Chromosome. Ghosh is one writer who combines history with a very contemporary vision of a world free of discrete cartographical divisions. The advancement in electronic technology, instant communic ation and networking, a proliferation of global television channels has to a great extent dissolved all kinds boundaries and br ought the world a lot closer. Amitav
Ghosh`s prime thematic concern likewise is using the travel motif to create a neutral space where barriers dissolve and borders are blurred. It is precisely this cosmopolitanism which makes today`s Indian novelist stand at par with
and not
separate from global writers of English. More over the constant concern with the subaltern who`s lost in the annals of history, endears him to the readers. The immense amount of research that he puts in to his works is woven beautifully in a blend of generic expectations making them perfect encasements for the prominent thematic concerns of contemporary Indian literary world. A critical study of the prime thematic concerns of Amitav Ghosh`s novels is thus an opportunity not just to peruse a substantial body of work that meditates up on a core set of issues concerning post colonialism in the contemporary fiction al writing with special focus on the marginalised subaltern; but also to view history with a novel perspective. The proposed research work, is an attempt to make a thematic