definition of what it is to have a history‚ crafting the space of diaspora as a third space‚ neither homeland nor metropole‚ but a place where a history of its own is unfolding. “If history forgets‚ fiction can remind us of many things.” Amitav Ghosh Amitav Ghosh‚ one of the chief fiction writers of contemporary Indian English writing has mingled history in fiction in such a way that both not only look as inseparable entities but also work as complimentary of each other. In his narration of history
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The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh Such moments are rare indeed these days when one takes a book in the hand and is completely captivated by it after reading the first few pages. That happened to me recently when I started reading "The Shadow Lines" by Amitav Ghosh. "The Shadow Lines‚" Ghosh’s second novel‚ was published in 1988‚ four years after the sectarian violence that shook New Delhi in the aftermath of the Prime minister‚ Indira Gandhi’s assassination. Written when the homes of the Sikhs were
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with the reality of cultural and political transformations. Moreover‚ cosmopolitanism also refer to cross-cultural practices of imagining or remembering space and place in the novel. Nadia Butt addresses the representation of cosmopolitanism in Amitav Ghosh’s memory novel by recalling and imagining the interplay between private and political lives. She argues that in Ghosh’s fiction‚ space is not merely remembered as an imaginative construct but is represented as a domain of political and cultural
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BOOK REVIEW Novel : The Shadow Lines AUTHOR : Amitav Ghosh Awards : winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award (1989). Bibliography : The Shadow Lines(novel)‚ Wikipedia(Internet). Main Characters : Mayadebi‚ Tridib‚ Ila‚ May‚ Narrator‚ Nick‚ grandmother. POLITICAL SCENERIO : The novel is set against the backdrop of historical events: 1.Swadeshi movement 2.Second World War 3.Partition of Country 4.Communal riots of 1963-64 in Dhaka and Calcutta CHARACTERS ANALYSIS : The characters in this
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In The Shadow Lines and The Hungry Ghosts‚ both Amitav Ghosh and Shyam Selvadurai‚ critique the emphasis that society puts on geo-political borders by acknowledging that we live in a world that is deeply inter-connected. Spanning different countries and continents‚ both of the novels explore issues of identity and belonging that are unique to the diaspora. This is accomplished through the characterization of a grandmother who is displaced from her homeland due to the Bengal Partition and the struggles
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Eco-socialists have revisited Marx’s writings and believe that he was the main originator of the ecological world view. William Morris‚ the English novelist and poet is credited for developing key principles of Eco-socialism. Metabolic Rift is a recent ideology introduced by John Bellamy Foster. This is an extension of Marx’s view on ecological crisis that occur under capitalism. The concept of the Metabolic Rift is the dynamic interchange between human beings and nature‚ resulting from human labour
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THE STRENGHT OF A WOMAN India has been a country where males have dominated society and oppressed the fairer sex. Only recently have things changed and currently India has its first woman president. This domination has caused women to actually believe that they are indeed inferior to men. It is therefore not surprising to find women content with the subservient life they were forced to lead‚ like in Mulk Raj Anand’s ‘The Coolie’ where in Munoo’s village‚ his aunt “…had done the housework herself
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Bibliography: Primary Sources Equiano‚ Olaudah‚ The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or‚ Gustavus Vassa‚ the African (New York: Modern Library Classics‚ 2004) Ghosh‚ Amitav‚ The Hungry Tide (London: HarperCollins Publishers‚ 2005) Secondary Sources Caretta‚ Vincent‚ The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (London: Penguin Classics‚ 2003) Curtis‚ K‚ 2010 Haynes‚ Carolyn A.‚ Divine Destiny: Gender and Race in Nineteenth-Century
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The Question of Ideology in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide The stalwarts of Indian writing in English like Salman Rushdie‚ Khushwant Singh‚ Mukul Kesavan‚ Vikram Chandra‚ Amitav Ghosh and the like‚ are writing in a postcolonial space using novel as a means of cultural representation. Their novels are generally assumed to be engaged in postcolonial consciousness but a close study of the thematic range proves that the novels also attempt to universalized humanistic gesture‚ for human nature and social
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