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La narrativa globale: scrivere nel mondo del XXI secolo. La narrativa globale è lo specchio e la lampada dell'epoca globale. Quando la globalizzazione è entrata nel vocabolario comune negli anni '80, una nozione di narrativa globale è a... more
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      World LiteraturesComparative LiteratureFrench LiteratureSpanish Literature
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      Climate ChangeAmitav GhoshClimate FictionClimate Change In Fiction
Amitav Ghosh believes that all the borders are artificial in the world and he tries to illustrate this thesis in his novel, in In An Antique Land. He suggests that cultural and historical experiences constitute the common ground for... more
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      GlobalizationGlobal CitizenshipPostcolonial LiteratureAmitav Ghosh
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      Mythology And FolkloreClaude Lévi-StraussAmitav Ghosh
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      EcocriticismAmitav GhoshPostcolonial Ecocriticism
The Hindu Literary Review, 21 May, 2000: pp.xiii, xvi.
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      Postcolonial StudiesIndian English LiteratureAmitav Ghosh
We are very pleased to welcome to the podcast acclaimed novelist, Amitav Ghosh, author of The Shadow Lines (1988), The Hungry Tide (2004) and The Ibis trilogy (2008-2015), among many other works. We talk about his latest work of... more
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      English LiteratureClimate ChangeLiteratureThe Novel
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      Comparative ReligionHistoryAncient HistoryComparative Literature
Piya, the cetologist protagonist of Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide, includes binoculars and a GPS in the equipment that she carries with her on a research trip to the Sundarbans, or “tide country”, region of West Bengal and these can be... more
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      Postcolonial LiteratureGlobalization and literatureContemporary Indian LiteratureLiterature and Environment
At a time when the world leaders are looking forward to religious discourses taking a key role in dealing with the pressing problems of global warming and climate change, this paper is an attempt to explore how religious worldviews as... more
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      ReligionReligion and EcologyColonialismEcology
Dissertation report on proper merchandising & Quality Management system in RMG sector
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... But whatever its politics, green postcolonialism brings out a truism that clearly applies to, but is not always clearly stated in, the different strands of both postcolonialism and ecocriticism: no social justice without environmental... more
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      Postcolonial StudiesEnvironmental StudiesPostcolonial LiteratureAmitav Ghosh
This study explores the relation with the Other that can be found through the travels of contemporary writers from India and Latin America. Since Edward Said’s Orientalism, travel writing has been mainly studied through the... more
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      Travel WritingPostcolonial LiteratureROBERTO BOLAÑOAmitav Ghosh
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      History of ScienceMedical HumanitiesAmitav GhoshPhrenology
The title of Joseph Conrad’s novella The Shadow-Line (1917) stands like a shadow behind that of Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Shadow Lines (1988). The essay begins by noting the omission of the hyphen in, and the plural form of, Ghosh’s title.... more
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      Postcolonial LiteratureAmitav GhoshJoseph Conrad
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      Climate ChangePhilosophy of LiteratureClimate Change and PhilosophyLiterature and Environment
In the field of literary studies, ecocriticism and geocriticism are currently acknowledged as the disciplines that most prominently and consistently engage with the question of human spatiality, examining the connections between ecology,... more
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      Postcolonial StudiesEcocriticismAmitav GhoshSundarbans
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      NarrativeNovelAmitav GhoshMemory
This essay was first presented at the seminal conference on Indian travel writing organised by the Sahitya Akademi in 2004, when people would ask ‘Is there such a thing as travel writing?’ and walk away as w fumbled for answers. But even... more
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      Amitav GhoshLife WritingNarrative nonfictionIndian Travel Writing
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      Post-ColonialismPartition literatureSouth Asian Diaspora LiteratureIndian English Literature
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      EcologyEcocriticismAmitav GhoshEmplotment
Submitted as my BA dissertation at York, this paper revisits two key literary texts that are seldom analysed together in order to draw out some key themes and influences in the representation and depiction of Burma and the Burmese... more
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      Burmese LiteraturePostcolonial StudiesGeorge OrwellPostcolonial Literature
In The Great Derangement, Climate Change and the Unthinkable Amitav Ghosh addresses a series of key questions about the apparent incapacity of the public opinion to envisage the imminent danger of climate change. Ghosh's answer to the... more
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ABSTRACT A SEARCH FOR IDENTITY IN THE NOVELS OF AMITAV GHOSH Rapid developments in the fields of trade, market, commerce and telecommunication technologies, together with cultural confrontations at the global level are creating a... more
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      Self and IdentitySocial IdentityIdentity (Culture)Cultural Identity
THE FICTION OF AMITAV GHOSH WITHIN POSTCOLONIAL PREMISES. 2010.
SARUP AND
SONS, NEW
DELHI. ISBN 9788176257183
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      Postcolonial StudiesPostcolonial LiteratureAmitav GhoshThe Shadow Lines by Amitav Gosh
Human migration, a socio-political phenomenon in contemporary times, refers to the journey of people across international borders or within their own country. Such journeys arise from varied ecological, social, political, religious, and... more
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      Amitav GhoshIndian Writing in EnglishClimate Fiction
This essay begins with a critique of several arguments against the possibility of cosmopolitan thought and practice, and therefore, of a “cosmopolitan identity”. In the first part, it takes as a historical example various aspects of the... more
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      CosmopolitanismPaul RicoeurMagical RealismNarrative and Identity
The journey of Indian English Fiction since the appearance of Rajmohan’s Wife by Bankim Chatterjee paving through the trio of Narayan, Anand and Rao, finally rested on the writers like V S Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Jhumpa... more
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      Indian studiesMigrationMigration StudiesAmitav Ghosh
This talk was given by the author upon being invited for a Guest Lecture on ‘Literature and Secularism’ by Amity Institute of English Studies and Research, Amity University on 21st April, 2022. The talk covers historical relevance of... more
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      MythologyEnglish LiteratureFrench StudiesIndian studies
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      EcologyPostcolonial LiteratureFolk ReligionAmitav Ghosh
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      TransnationalismIndian English LiteratureAmitav GhoshDiaspora and Identity Formation of International Students
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      Postcolonial StudiesIndian English LiteratureAmitav Ghosh
The Partition of the country in 1947 was a moment of rupture in the psyche of the country. It altered the geographical borders of the country in a day and created two nation-states officially. The moment was a political event that... more
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      Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh novelsThe Hungry TideMorichjhanpi and Partition
The present paper tries to explore the ecocritical concerns represented in the select novels of Amitav Ghosh, namely, The Hungry Tide (2004) and Gun Island (2019). It discusses the recurring themes of environmental conservation,... more
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      EcocriticismAmitav GhoshPostcolonial EcocriticismThe Hungry Tide
Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide is a story about the Sundarbans, the sort that helps us understand the fascinating and sensitive ecology of what in the novel is called “the tide country,” as well as the crucial importance of this region’s... more
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      World LiteraturesEnglish LiteratureGlobalisation and cultural changePlace Attachment
This paper argues that literature has much to contribute to the theoretical work of island studies, and not just because literary texts provide evidence of the ways islands are conceptualized in different historical and cultural contexts.... more
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      Postcolonial StudiesIsland StudiesAmitav Ghosh
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      History of MalariaScience FictionIndian LiteratureAmitav Ghosh
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      Postcolonial StudiesHistory of IndiaPolitical EcologyPolitical Ecology (Anthropology)
in this section. The Shadow Lines is a SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARD winning novel written in 1988 by Amitav Ghosh; The God of Small Things is a Booker prize award winning novel written in 1997 by Arundhati Roy. Both these novels are written in... more
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      HermeneuticsAmitav GhoshArundhati RoyThe Shadow Lines by Amitav Gosh
Amitav Ghosh's novel of 2004, 'The Hungry Tide', focuses a magnifying lens on what might be called a micro-culture within the region - namely, the Sundarbans or "tide country," the islets of the Ganges delta that lie south of Kolkata and... more
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The Indian novel has been a vibrant and energetic expressive space in the 21st century. While the grand postcolonial gestures characteristic of the late-20th-century Indian novel have been in evidence in new novels by established authors... more
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      GlobalizationSouth Asian StudiesGender and SexualityPostcolonial Literature
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      Comparative LiteratureAnimal StudiesEcologyApocalypticism In Literature
Travel writing, in today's time is a marginalized genre if not a neglected one. The paper attempts to look at travelling from various perspectives. In case of postcolonial and postmodern travel writers it can be seen that travel writing... more
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      Southeast Asian StudiesTravel WritingSpatiality (Cultural geography)Travel Literature
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Set in the vast Sundarban mangrove forest of Bangladesh in the shadow of the colonial past and the 1979 Morichjhapi massacre, The Hungry Tide traces the transformation of three metropolitan characters from disengaged spectators to... more
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      AestheticsRomanticismMarxismPostcolonial Studies
Over the last four decades, Dipesh Chakrabarty’s astonishingly wide-ranging scholarship has elaborated a range of important issues, especially those of modernity, identity, and politics – in dialogue with postcolonial theory and critical... more
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      Cultural HistoryIndigenous StudiesPostcolonial StudiesRace and Racism
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      PostmodernismAmitav Ghosh
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      Cultural StudiesAestheticsAmitav GhoshIndian Writing in English
Critically reading Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies, the present paper attempts to explore the impacts of colonization on indigenous subjects, plants and animals. To trace the detrimental effects of colonialism on both environment and people... more
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      ColonialismEcocriticismAmitav GhoshMonocultures