Richa Joshi Pandey Research Scholar in Department of English, Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar, Garhwal. Uttarakhand. Abstract: The current paper deals with the idea of what is it that constitutes a nation state. Different theorists like Smith and Anderson are briefly discussed and so are their theoretical shortcomings in explaining the cultural plethora that…
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Hunger for Identity in ‘Total Environment’ in Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
Dr. Santanu Basak Assistant Professor in English Dr. Bhupendra Nath Dutta Smriti Mahavidyalaya Hatgobindapur, Burdwan, West Bengal India- 713407 Man, basically belonging to the ‘total environment’, seeks his space not in dualistic separation from nature but in his monistic identification with the ecosphere, not in the ‘shallow’ ecology where nature is valued only in terms…
Problems of Cultural Plurality in Amitav Ghosh’s Fiction
Dr. Sujatha S. Reader & Head, PG Dept of English NSS Hindu College, Changanacherry Kerala The emergence of a nationalist ideology and its eventual hegemony in the colonies was a by-product of colonization and the popularisation of scientific temper and bourgeois liberal ideology it triggers. The nationalist ideology betrays a sort of ambivalence, when it…
Amitav Ghosh’s Selected Novels and Exploration of 20th Century
Biman Mondal West Bengal. The history of twentieth century literature is often nowadays written in two broad categories: one was Modernism and the other Postmodernism. They were the two large periods of the 20th century. Like modernist literature, postmodern literature is part of socio- cultural and historical development and it can be seen as a…
Concept of Space and Time in The Shadow Lines
Bhasha Shukla Sharma Head, Department of Humanities UIT, RGPV, Bhopal. Abstract: Amitav Ghosh in his novels seems to be in search of (cultural) spaces in the dark smeared lines across cultures or is he trying to find out space between cultures? Is this darkness of the lines across cultures caused by the black or the…
Morichjhapi Revisited: Fictionalizing History in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
Sukanta Das Assistant Professor, Department of English, P.D.Women’s College, Club Road, Dist.- Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India, Pin- 735101 The trajectory of development of the discipline of history underlines shift and changes in its orientation. No strict difference between history and literature was made in earlier times. Such a conception of history meant that there was…
Restoration of Human Spirit in The Hungry Tide of Amitav Ghosh
Raja Ambethkar M K Jaya Raj Asst. Professor of English Lecturer in English Freshmen Engineering Department Govt. Degree College K L University Vinukonda, Guntur District, A P. Vaddeswaram Guntur District, A P. Introduction: Divided into two broad sections: “The Ebb: Bhata” and “The Tide: Jowar,” The Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, an archipelago…
The Hunger Motif: A Study of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
– P. Prasanna Devi Assistant Professor of English, SFR College for Women, Sivakasi – 626 189. Tamil Nadu. Literary depictions of hunger had been a powerful motif in the writings of many writers across the world. Because the act of eating takes such an essential place in the day-to-day life of the humans as well…
POSTMODERN TRAITS IN THE NOVELS OF AMITAV GHOSH
Prof. R. Chenniappan R. Saravana Suresh Research scholar Research scholar Paavai Engineering college Paavai Engineering college Pachal, Namakkal. Pachal, Namakkal. Indian writing in English has stamped its greatness by mixing up tradition and modernity in the production of art. At the outset, the oral transmission of Indian literary works gained ground gradually. It created an…