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…
(Dis)homing Texts: An Interrogation of Ideological Perspectives in Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Guha’s The Bounty of The Goddess
Dr. Saswat S. Das Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur. & Dr. Bipasha Som Lecturer, Madras Christian College, Chennai. . . . So that my India was just that: ‘my’ India, a version and no more than one version of all the hundreds of millions of possible versions. (Rushdie, Imaginary 10)…
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…
Refugees as ‘the Subaltern’ in The Hungry Tide
Shital Shamdhan Maher The society has been studied by different approaches and angles in humanities and social sciences. Society is a place where a person or groups strive to attain equilibrium in cultural, social, political, economical aspects with a person or groups who possess the power to utilize it. Some people still lack behind in…
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…