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| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: The Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh, 2014-03-04 Three lives collide on an island off India: “An engrossing tale of caste and culture… introduces readers to a little-known world.”—Entertainment Weekly Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. For settlers here, life is extremely precarious. Attacks by tigers are common. Unrest and eviction are constant threats. At any moment, tidal floods may rise and surge over the land, leaving devastation in their wake. In this place of vengeful beauty, the lives of three people collide. Piya Roy is a marine biologist, of Indian descent but stubbornly American, in search of a rare, endangered river dolphin. Her journey begins with a disaster when she is thrown from a boat into crocodile-infested waters. Rescue comes in the form of a young, illiterate fisherman, Fokir. Although they have no language between them, they are powerfully drawn to each other, sharing an uncanny instinct for the ways of the sea. Piya engages Fokir to help with her research and finds a translator in Kanai Dutt, a businessman from Delhi whose idealistic aunt and uncle are longtime settlers in the Sundarbans. As the three launch into the elaborate backwaters, they are drawn unawares into the hidden undercurrents of this isolated world, where political turmoil exacts a personal toll as powerful as the ravaging tide. From the national bestselling author of Gun Island, The Hungry Tide was a winner of the Crossword Book Prize and a finalist for the Kiriyama Prize. “A great swirl of political, social, and environmental issues, presented through a story that’s full of romance, suspense, and poetry.”—The Washington Post “Masterful.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: The Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh, 2005 The Hungry Tide is a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity, and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the earth. Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. For settlers here, life is extremely precarious. Attacks by deadly tigers are common. Unrest and eviction are constant threats. Without warning, at any time, tidal floods rise and surge over the land, leaving devastation in their wake. In this place of vengeful beauty, the lives of three people from different worlds collide. Piya Roy is a young marine biologist, of Indian descent but stubbornly American, in search of a rare, endangered river dolphin. Her journey begins with a disaster, when she is thrown from a boat into crocodile-infested waters. Rescue comes in the form of a young, illiterate fisherman, Fokir. Although they have no language between them, Piya and Fokir are powerfully drawn to each other, sharing an uncanny instinct for the ways of the sea. Piya engages Fokir to help with her research and finds a translator in Kanai Dutt, a businessman from Delhi whose idealistic aunt and uncle are longtime settlers in the Sundarbans. As the three of them launch into the elaborate backwaters, they are drawn unawares into the hidden undercurrents of this isolated world, where political turmoil exacts a personal toll that is every bit as powerful as the ravaging tide. Already an international success, The Hungry Tide is a prophetic novel of remarkable insight, beauty, and humanity. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: The Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh, 2005 A contemporary story of adventure and romance, identity and history, this novel brings two outsiders deep into one of the most fascinating regions on Earth--tiny islands known as the Sundarbans off the coast of India--where life is ruled by the unforgiving tides and the constant threat of attack by Bengal tigers. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Gun Island Amitav Ghosh, 2019-09-10 Named a Best Book of Fall by Vulture, Chicago Review of Books and Amazon From the award-winning author of the bestselling epic Ibis trilogy comes a globetrotting, folkloric adventure novel about family and heritage Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one that turns Deen Datta’s world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who sets his journey in motion; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man who opens Deen’s eyes to the realities of growing up in today’s world; Rafi, with his desperate attempt to help someone in need; and Cinta, an old friend who provides the missing link in the story they are all a part of. It is a journey that will upend everything he thought he knew about himself, about the Bengali legends of his childhood, and about the world around him. Amitav Ghosh‘s Gun Island is a beautifully realized novel that effortlessly spans space and time. It is the story of a world on the brink, of increasing displacement and unstoppable transition. But it is also a story of hope, of a man whose faith in the world and the future is restored by two remarkable women. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: At Play in the Fields of the Lord Peter Matthiessen, 2012-05-02 In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash in this novel from the National Book Award-winning author. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who is himself part Indian, has come to kill them on the behalf of the local comandante. Out of this struggle Peter Matthiessen creates an electrifying moral thriller—adapted into a movie starring John Lithgow, Kathy Bates, and Tom Waits. A novel of Conradian richness, At Play in the Fields of the Lord explores both the varieties of spiritual experience and the politics of cultural genocide. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh Gaurav Desai, John Hawley, 2019-05-01 The prizewinning author of novels, nonfiction, and hybrid texts, Amitav Ghosh grew up in India and trained as an anthropologist. His works have been translated into over thirty languages. They cross and mix a number of genres, from science fiction to the historical novel, incorporating ethnohistory and travelogue and even recuperating dead languages. His subjects include climate change, postcolonial identities, translocation, migration, oceanic spaces, and the human interface with the environment. Part 1 of this volume discusses editions of Ghosh's works and the scholarship on Ghosh. The essays in part 2, Approaches, present ideas for teaching his works through considerations of postcolonial feminism, historicity in the novels, environmentalism, language, sociopolitical conflict, genre, intersectional reading, and the ethics of colonized subjecthood. Guidance for teaching Ghosh in different contexts, such as general education, world literature, or single-author classes, is provided. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Incendiary Circumstances Amitav Ghosh, 2007-04-23 A journalist who “illuminates the human drama behind the headlines” writes about today’s dramatic events, from terrorist attacks to tsunamis (Publishers Weekly). “An uncannily honest writer,” Amitav Ghosh has published firsthand accounts of pivotal world events in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and the New Yorker (The New York Times Book Review). This volume brings together the finest of these pieces, chronicling the turmoil of our times. Incendiary Circumstances begins with Ghosh’s arrival in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands just days after the devastation of the 2005 tsunami. We then travel back to September 11, 2001, as Ghosh retrieves his young daughter from school, sick with the knowledge that she must witness the kind of firestorm that has been in the background of his life since childhood. In his travels, Ghosh has stood on an icy mountaintop on the contested border between India and Pakistan; interviewed Pol Pot’s sister-in-law in Cambodia; shared the elation of Egyptians when Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize; and stood with his threatened Sikh neighbors through the riots following Indira Gandhi’s assassination. In these pieces, he offers an up-close look at an era defined by the ravages of politics and nature. “Ghosh is the perfect chronicler of an increasingly globalized world . . . Reading [him] is a mind-expanding experience. Once you’ve finished this book, you’re very likely to press it into your friends’ hands and beg them to read it as well.” —Sunday Oregonian |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh, 2009-09-29 The first in an epic trilogy, Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies is a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment (The Observer [London]). At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton. With a panorama of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, Sea of Poppies is a storm-tossed adventure worthy of Sir Walter Scott (Vogue). |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: The Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh, Amitav, 2010-01-26 Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families -- one English, one Bengali -- as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observing the ways in which political events invade private lives. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Dancing In Cambodia & Other Essays Amitav Ghosh, 2010 |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: The Glass Palace Ghosh, Amitav, 2008 The Glass Palace Begins With The Shattering Of The Kingdom Of Burma, And Tells The Story Of A People, A Fortune, And A Family And Its Fate. It Traces The Life Of Rajkumar, A Poor Indian Boy, Who Is Lifted On The Tides Of Political And Social Turmoil To Build An Empire In The Burmese Teak Forest. When British Soldiers Force The Royal Family Out Of The Glass Palace, During The Invasion Of 1885, He Falls In Love With Dolly, An Attendant At The Palace. Years Later, Unable To Forget Her, Rajkumar Goes In Search Of His Love. Through This Brilliant And Impassioned Story Of Love And War, Amitav Ghosh Presents A Ruthless Appraisal Of The Horrors Of Colonialism And Capitalist Exploitation. Click Here To Visit The Amitav Ghosh Website |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: We Are Unprepared Meg Little Reilly, 2016-08-30 Meg Little Reilly places a young couple in harm’s way—both literally and emotionally—as they face a cataclysmic storm that threatens to decimate their Vermont town, and the Eastern Seaboard in her penetrating debut novel, WE ARE UNPREPARED. Ash and Pia move from hipster Brooklyn to rustic Vermont in search of a more authentic life. But just months after settling in, the forecast of a superstorm disrupts their dream. Fear of an impending disaster splits their tight-knit community and exposes the cracks in their marriage. Where Isole was once a place of old farm families, rednecks and transplants, it now divides into paranoid preppers, religious fanatics and government tools, each at odds about what course to take. WE ARE UNPREPARED is an emotional journey, a terrifying glimpse into the human costs of our changing earth and, ultimately, a cautionary tale of survival and the human |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Animalities Michael Lundblad, 2017-05-24 New and cutting-edge work in animality studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanismRepresentations of animality continue to proliferate in various kinds of literary and cultural texts. This pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to twentieth-century literature and film. The range of texts considered here is intentionally broad, answering questions like, how do contemporary writers such as Amitav Ghosh, Terry Tempest Williams, and Indra Sinha help us to think about not only animals but also humans as animals? What kinds of creatures are being constructed by contemporary artists such as Patricia Piccinini, Alexis Rockman, and Michael Pestel? How do aanimalities animate such diverse texts as the poetry of two women publishing under the name of aMichael Field, or an early film by Thomas Edison depicting the electrocution of a circus elephant named Topsy? Connecting these issues to fields as diverse as environmental studies and ecocriticism, queer theory, gender studies, feminist theory, illness and disability studies, postcolonial theory, and biopolitics, the volume also raises further questions about disciplinarity itself, while hoping to inspire further work abeyond the human in future interdisciplinary scholarship.Key Features10 provocative case studies focused on representations and discourses of animals and animality in twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature, art, and film in EnglishNew work from both internationally renowned and emerging figures in the burgeoning fields of animality studies, human-animal studies, and posthumanism, suggesting innovative and significant new directions to exploreBroad introduction to the kinds of questions scholars in the humanities have considered in relation to animals and animality |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Cinnamon Gardens Shyam Selvadurai, 2012-12-04 Set in 1920s’ Ceylon, during the turbulent closing days of colonial rule, this evocative story of intertwined lives takes us behind the fragrant gardens and polished surfaces of the elite who reside in a wealthy suburb of Colombo to reveal a world of splintered families, conflicted passions, and lives destroyed by class hatred. Annalukshmi, a spirited young schoolteacher, finds herself caught between her family’s pressures to marry and her own desire for a more independent life. Then there is her uncle Balendran, whose comfortable life of privilege is rocked by the arrival of Richard, a lover from his past. Their uneasy reunion re-ignites tensions with Balendran’s powerful father, and threatens all on which Balendran has built his present life. Sensual, perceptive, and wise, Cinnamon Gardens is a novel of exceptional achievement—an exquisite tapestry of lives. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Flood of Fire Amitav Ghosh, 2015-08-04 A Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction Book of the Year A Guardian Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year The stunningly vibrant final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy from Amitav Ghosh, Flood of Fire. It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to reinstate the trade. Among those consigned is Kesri Singh, a soldier in the army of the East India Company. He makes his way eastward on the Hind, a transport ship that will carry him from Bengal to Hong Kong. Along the way, many characters from the Ibis Trilogy come aboard, including Zachary Reid, a young American speculator in opium futures, and Shireen, the widow of an opium merchant whose mysterious death in China has compelled her to seek out his lost son. The Hind docks in Hong Kong just as war breaks out and opium is “pouring into the market like monsoon flood.” From Bombay to Calcutta, from naval engagements to the decks of a hospital ship, among embezzlement, profiteering, and espionage, Amitav Ghosh’s Flood of Fire charts a breathless course through the culminating moment of the British opium trade and vexed colonial history. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: The Calcutta Chromosome Amitav Ghosh, 2011-04-19 From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered I.D. card of a long-lost acquaintance, he is suddenly drawn into a spellbinding adventure across centuries and around the globe, into the strange life of L. Murugan, a man obsessed with the medical history of malaria, and into a magnificently complex world where conspiracy hangs in the air like mosquitoes on a summer night. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: The Construction of Place in Amitav Ghosh's "The Hungry Tide" Marnie Hensler, 2020-10-09 Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Literature - Asia, University of Freiburg (English Department), course: On the Beach: Narrating Littoral Space in Literature, language: English, abstract: This paper claims that the space of the tide country, as perceived by the protagonists in The Hungry Tide, is constructed through two major embedded narratives. The first narrative is the legend of the goddess Bon Bibi. Passed down orally from generation to generation, the rhythmic legend sediments itself in the minds of the tide country people, defines how they see their homeland and thus actively, and repeatedly, constructs and reconstructs the space of the tide country. The second narrative is Nirmal’s recollection of his repeated adventures to Morichjhapi. Unlike the legend of Bon Bibi, his adventures are transmitted in writing through his notebook. Accessible to Kanai and the reader only, its content shapes and constructs how both character and reader perceive and construct the space of the historical island. However, it also works the other way around. The place of the tide country also influences the narratives that evolve around it. The Bon Bibi legend is as fluid as the tide country, being (re)interpreted from generation to generation. Nirmal’s notebook as well reflects the main characteristics of the tide country as it travels on water (on the Megha) and ultimately also disappears in water (like the tide country eventually will as well). In this paper, a close textual analysis of both embedded narratives reveals how they manage to (re)construct the space of the tide country for both characters and readers (i.e. which narrative strategies are used etc.) and what distinct topographical characteristics of the tide country can be found within them. In sum, this paper claims that narratives have the ability to construct the space(s) we live in. Cultural geography examines how places and identities are produced. It looks into how people of a certain culture and place perceive their “homeland” or, inverse, how they construct it with the help of cultural artefacts. Cultural artefacts like folktales or songs can contribute to the construction of space since they describe and determine how people view and perceive the places around them. Whatever cultural artefacts people produce give insight into how they see their space. Narratives as cultural artefacts, for example, can thus show us how spaces are perceived by those who “tell” and “consume” them. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Jungle Nama Amitav Ghosh, 2021-11-11 'One of the finest writers of his generation' Financial Times Thousands of islands rise from the rivers' rich silts, crowned with forests of mangrove, rising on stilts. This is the Sundarban, where great rivers give birth; to a vast jungle that joins Ocean and Earth. Jungle Nama is a beautifully illustrated verse adaptation of a legend from the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest. It tells the story of the avaricious rich merchant Dhona, the poor lad Dukhey, and his mother; it is also the story of Dokkhin Rai, a mighty spirit who appears to humans as a tiger, of Bon Bibi, the benign goddess of the forest, and her warrior brother Shah Jongoli. Jungle Nama is the story of an ancient legend with urgent relevance to today's climate crisis. Its themes of limiting greed, and of preserving the balance between the needs of humans and nature have never been more timely. Written in Amitav Ghosh's interpretation of the traditional Bengali verse meter, poyar, the poem is coupled with stunning illustrations from internationally renowned artist, Salman Toor. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: The Circle of Reason Amitav Ghosh, 2005-05-03 A New York Times Notable Book: A policeman chases a falsely accused man on a wild journey around the world in this “utterly involving” novel (The Sunday Times). When eight-year-old Nachiketa Bose first arrives in the East Bengali village of Lalpukur, he receives the name Alu—potato—for the size and shape of his extraordinary head. His uncle Balaram, the local schoolmaster and phrenology enthusiast, sends Alu to apprentice as a weaver, and the boy soon surpasses the skill of his master. But when a tragic bombing leaves Alu suspected of terrorism, he flees across India to Bombay and the Arabian Sea, followed all the way by the dogged policeman—and avid ornithologist—Jyoti Das. From East Bengal to the Persian Gulf and North Africa, Amitav Ghosh’s wild and extraordinary novel “follows in the footsteps of magical realists like Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie” (The New York Times Book Review). “A novelist of dazzling ingenuity.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A Scheherezade effortlessly spinning tales within tales, the possessor of a strong narrative voice quite like no other.” —Newsday “Ghosh’s writing soars, producing electric images.” —The Baltimore Sun “A wonderful mix of magic and horror, wit and curiosity . . . Ghosh has really woven a fresh world for us to visit.” —Providence Sunday Journal |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: The Great Derangement Amitav Ghosh, 2017-07-24 Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today’s climate events, Ghosh asserts, make them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of thinking and imagining. This is particularly true of serious literary fiction: hundred-year storms and freakish tornadoes simply feel too improbable for the novel; they are automatically consigned to other genres. In the writing of history, too, the climate crisis has sometimes led to gross simplifications; Ghosh shows that the history of the carbon economy is a tangled global story with many contradictory and counterintuitive elements. Ghosh ends by suggesting that politics, much like literature, has become a matter of personal moral reckoning rather than an arena of collective action. But to limit fiction and politics to individual moral adventure comes at a great cost. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence—a task to which fiction, Ghosh argues, is the best suited of all cultural forms. His book serves as a great writer’s summons to confront the most urgent task of our time. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Essays in Ecocriticism Rayson K. Alex, 2007 Contributed papers presented at two ecocriticism conferences organized by Indian Association for Studies in Contemporary Literature in English ... [et al.]. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Engaging South Asian Religions Mathew N. Schmalz, Peter Gottschalk, 2012-01-02 Focusing on boundaries, appropriations, and resistances involved in Western engagements with South Asian religions, this edited volume considers both the pre- and postcolonial period in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It pays particular attention to contemporary controversies surrounding the study of South Asian religions, including several scholars' reflection on the contentious reaction to their own work. Other chapters consider such issues as British colonial epistemologies, the relevance of Hegel for the study of South Asia, the canonization of Francis Xavier, feminist interpretations of the mother of the Buddha, and theological dispute among Muslims in Bangladesh and Pakistan. By using the themes of boundaries, appropriations and resistances, this work offers insight into the dynamics and diversity of Western approaches to South Asian religions, and the indigenous responses to them, that avoids simple active/passive binaries. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Vishnu's Crowded Temple Maria Misra, 2008-01-01 As it enters its sixtieth year of independence, India stands on the threshold of superpower status. Yet India is strikingly different from all other global colossi. While it is the world's most populous democracy and enjoys the benefits of its internationally competitive high-tech and software industries, India also contends with extremes of poverty, inequality, and political and religious violence. This accessible and vividly written book presents a new interpretation of India's history, focusing particular attention on the impact of British imperialism on Independent India. Maria Misra begins with the rebellion against the British in 1857 and tracks the country's advance to the present day. India's extremes persist, the author argues, because its politics rest upon a peculiar foundation in which traditional ideas of hierarchy, difference, and privilege coexist to a remarkable degree with modern notions of equality and democracy. The challenge of India's leaders today, as in the last sixty years, is to weave together the disparate threads of the nation's ancient culture, colonial legacy, and modern experience. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Amitav Ghosh Brinda Bose, 2003 Amitav Ghosh: Critical Perspectives Presents A Wide Range Of Incisive Scholarly Criticism On The Eminent Indian Writer'S Work To Date. With An Introduction That Places Amitav Ghosh In The Context Of His Historical/Cultural/ Social/Political Times, This Anthology Brings Together Both Established And New Critics In Their Perceptive Grasp Of Ghosh'S Extraordinary Oeuvre Of Fiction, Staring From The Circle Of Reason(1986) Through The Shadow Lines(1988), In An Antique Land(1992)And The Calcutta Chromosome(1996) To The Fairly Recent The Glass Palace(2000), Ghosh'S Best-Known And Most Influential Piece Of Political Writing. A Greater Emphasis Is Placed On The Shadow Lines And In An Antique Land, Which Have Received The Widest Critical Attention And Are, As Yet, The Ghosh Text Most Taught In University Courses Across The World. An Innovative 'Pedagogy' Section In This Collection Also Explores These Texts From Both Teachers' And Students' Perspectives, As They Play Out In Classrooms At Locations As Far Apart As Delhi And The American Mid-West. An Interview With Amitav Ghosh Animates This Anthology With An Authorial Intervention That - Perhaps Unwittingly - Both Validates And Questions The Praxis Of Literary Critism Today In Its Peculiarly Postmodern Predicament. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: River of Smoke Amitav Ghosh, 2011-09-27 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of Year A NPR Best Book of the Year In Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies, the Ibis began its treacherous journey across the Indian Ocean, bound for the cane fields of Mauritius with a cargo of indentured servants. Now, in River of Smoke, the former slave ship flounders in the Bay of Bengal, caught in the midst of a deadly cyclone. The storm also threatens the clipper ship Anahita, groaning with the largest consignment of opium ever to leave India for Canton. Meanwhile, the Redruth, a nursery ship, carries horticulturists determined to track down the priceless botanical treasures of China. All will converge in Canton's Fanqui-town, or Foreign Enclave, a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars. A spectacular adventure, but also a bold indictment of global avarice, River of Smoke is a consuming historical novel with powerful contemporary resonance. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: The Nutmeg's Curse Amitav Ghosh, 2022-09-07 In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh’s new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation—of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh’s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis, revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with earthly materials such as spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels. Our crisis, he shows, is ultimately the result of a mechanistic view of the earth, where nature exists only as a resource for humans to use for our own ends, rather than a force of its own, full of agency and meaning. Writing against the backdrop of the global pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, Ghosh frames these historical stories in a way that connects our shared colonial histories with the deep inequality we see around us today. By interweaving discussions on everything from the global history of the oil trade to the migrant crisis and the animist spirituality of Indigenous communities around the world, The Nutmeg’s Curse offers a sharp critique of Western society and speaks to the profoundly remarkable ways in which human history is shaped by non-human forces. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: A Book of Simple Living Ruskin Bond, 2015-03-01 |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: In an Antique Land Amitav Ghosh, 2011-07-20 Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbors. Combining shrewd observations with painstaking historical research, Ghosh serves up skeptics and holy men, merchants and sorcerers. Some of these figures are real, some only imagined, but all emerge as vividly as the characters in a great novel. In an Antique Land is an inspired work that transcends genres as deftly as it does eras, weaving an entrancing and intoxicating spell. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Through the Arc of the Rain Forest Karen Tei Yamashita, 2017-09-12 Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying. —New York Times Book Review Dazzling . . . a seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and futuristic fiction. —San Francisco Chronicle Impressive . . . a flight of fancy through a dreamlike Brazil. —Village Voice Surreal and misty, sweeping from one high-voltage scene to another. —LA Weekly Amuses and frightens at the same time. —Newsday Incisive and funny, this book yanks our chains and makes us see the absurdity that rules our world. —Booklist (starred review) Expansive and ambitious . . . incredible and complicated. —Library Journal This satiric morality play about the destruction of the Amazon rain forest unfolds with a diversity and fecundity equal to its setting. . . . Yamashita seems to have thrown into the pot everything she knows and most that she can imagine—all to good effect. —Publishers Weekly A Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one's earlobe, rise to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters—both personal and ecological—that destroy the rain forest and all the birds of Brazil. Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, and Anime Wong, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. |
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| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: The Imam and the Indian Amitav Ghosh, 2010 The Imam and the Indian is an extensive compilation of Amitav Ghosh s non-fiction writings. Sporadically published between his novels, in magazines, journals, academic books and periodicals, these essays and articles trace the evolution of the ideas that shape his fiction. He explores the connections between past and present, events and memories, people, cultures and countries that have a shared history. Ghosh combines his historical and anthropological bent of mind with his skills of a novelist, to present a collection like no other. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: The Novels of Amitav Ghosh Rajinder Kumar Dhawan, 1999 Amitav Ghosh, b. 1956, an Indian English novelist. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: The Post-colonial Space Nandini Sahu, 2007 The 1980 S And After Has Created A Typical Post-Modern Anxiety With The Advent Of Salman Rushdie As An Influential Diaspora Writer. This Book Is Conceptualized Around A Series Of Topics Like Post-Modern Anxiety, Identity, Politics, National And Self-Definition, The Problem Of Exile And Diaspora, And An Interest To Examine The Way Indian English Literature Has Established Itself And Set Up As A Separate Discipline. While The Bright And Brilliant Promises About Indian English Literature Rejuvenate Us, Some Pertinent Questions Hang Above Us Related To Our Identity, Historiography And The Political And National Affiliation Of A Writer. Does The Absence Of A National Identity Affect The Tone Of A Creative Writer And The Mindset Of His Readers As Well? Does The Post-Colonial Space Invite And Initiate The Indian English Writers And The Diaspora Writers To Take Their Self And National Identity As The Metaphor Of Their Creativity? How Do They Define And Justify Themselves? What Do They Mean By Indianness, Nation And Narration, Women Issues, Subaltern Conditions, Nativism, Post-Colonialism, Post-Modernism, And Essentialism? What Are Their Literary And Extra-Literary Concerns? Do They Succeed In Giving A Clear Image To The Indigenous Culture And The Narrative Traditions Of India? What Linguistic And Stylistic Innovations Are Being Introduced By The Post-Colonial Writers? This Book Is A Humble Attempt To Point Out Some Of These Issues By The Editor And The Contributors.The Present Analytical Study Will Prove An Ideal Reference Book To Students, Researchers And Teachers Of Indian English Literature. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Local Natures, Global Responsibilities , 2010-01-01 In the New Literatures in English, nature has long been a paramount issue: the environmental devastation caused by colonialism has left its legacy, with particularly disastrous consequences for the most vulnerable parts of the world. At the same time, social and cultural transformations have altered representations of nature in postcolonial cultures and literatures. It is this shift of emphasis towards the ecological that is addressed by this volume. A fast-expanding field, ecocriticism covers a wide range of theories and areas of interest, particularly the relationship between literature and other ‘texts’ and the environment. Rather than adopting a rigid agenda, the interpretations presented involve ecocritical perspectives that can be applied most fruitfully to literary and non-literary texts. Some are more general, ‘holistic’ approaches: literature and other cultural forms are a ‘living organism’, part of an intellectual ecosystem, implemented and sustained by the interactions between the natural world, both human and non-human, and its cultural representations. ‘Nature’ itself is a new interpretative category in line with other paradigms such as race, class, gender, and identity. A wide range of genres are covered, from novels or films in which nature features as the main topic or ‘protagonist’ to those with an ecocritical agenda, as in dystopian literature. Other concerns are: nature as a cultural construct; ‘gendered’ natures; and the city/country dichotomy. The texts treated challenge traditional Western dualisms (human/animal, man/nature, woman/man). While such global phenomena as media (‘old’ or ‘new’), tourism, and catastrophes permeate many of these texts, there is also a dual focus on nature as the inexplicable, elusive ‘Other’ and the need for human agency and global responsibility. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Animal's People Indra Sinha, 2009-03-17 Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Animal's People is by turns a profane, scathingly funny, and piercingly honest tale of a boy so badly damaged by the poisons released during a chemical plant leak that he walks on all fours. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Dark Holds No Terrors Shashi Deshpande, 2000-10-14 Why are you still alive-why didn't you die?' Years on, Sarita still remembers her mother's bitter words uttered when as a little girl she was unable to save her younger brother from drowning. Now, her mother is dead and Sarita returns to the family home, ostensibly to take care of her father, but in reality to escape the nightmarish brutality her husband inflicts on her every night. In the quiet of her old father's company Sarita reflects on the events of her life: her stultifying small town childhood, her domineering mother, her marriage to the charismatic young poet Mahohar. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Forty Thieves Thomas Perry, 2015-12-15 Married sleuths cross paths with married assassins in this “priceless” mystery by the bestselling author of the Jane Whitefield series (The New York Times). Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both ex-LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a Glock 17, the couples have little in common—until they’re hired to do damage control on the same murder. The body of research scientist James Ballantine has been pulled from a storm sewer, with two bullet holes in the back of his head. With the case turning cold, Ballantine’s former employers bring in the Abels to succeed where the police have failed. As for the Hoyts, their mysterious contractors want to make sure that the facts about Ballantine’s death stay hidden. Now the Abels must try to survive as they circle ever closer to the truth, and to a dangerous pair guarding it with their lives. From “a master of nail-biting suspense” (Los Angeles Times), comes a “propulsive, darkly humorous” (Publishers Weekly) “double-barreled Southern California thriller that moves almost faster than a speeding bullet” (The Wall Street Journal). |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: EcoGothic Andrew Smith, William Hughes, 2015-11-01 This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the post-apocalypse – images which are also central to a certain type of Gothic literature. By exploring the relationship between the ecocritical aspects of the Gothic and the Gothic elements of the ecocritical, this book provides a new way of looking at both the Gothic and ecocriticism. Writers discussed include Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Dan Simmons and Rana Dasgupta. The volume thus explores writing and film across various national contexts including Britain, America and Canada, as well as giving due consideration to how such issues might be discussed within a global context. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Half a Life V. S. Naipaul, 2012-03-15 One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly unexpected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, published seven years ago. Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste—a disastrous union he would live to regret, as he would the children that issued from it. When Willie reaches manhood, his flight from the travails of his mixed birth takes him from India to London, where, in the shabby haunts of immigrants and literary bohemians of the 1950s, he contrives a new identity. This is what happens as he tries to defeat self-doubt in sexual adventures and in the struggle to become a writer—strivings that bring him to the brink of exhaustion, from which he is rescued, to his amazement, only by the love of a good woman. And this is what happens when he returns with her—carried along, really—to her home in Africa, to live, until the last doomed days of colonialism, yet another life not his own. In a luminous narrative that takes us across three continents, Naipaul explores his great theme of inheritance with an intimacy and directness unsurpassed in his extraordinary body of work. And even as he lays bare the bitter comical ironies of assumed identities, he gives us a poignant spectacle of the enervation peculiar to a borrowed life. In one man’s determined refusal of what he has been given to be, Naipaul reveals the way of all our experience. As Willie comes to see, “Everything goes on a bias. The world should stop, but it goes on.” A masterpiece of economy and emotional nuance, Half a Life is an indelible feat of the imagination. |
| the hungry tide amitav ghosh: Postcolonial Green Bonnie Roos, Alex Hunt, 2010-08-20 Postcolonial Green brings together scholarship bridging ecocriticism and postcolonialism. Since its inception, ecocriticism has been accused of being inattentive to the complexities that colonialism poses for ideas of nature and environmentalism. Postcolonial discourse, on the other hand, has been so immersed in theoretical questions of nationalism and identity that it has been seen as ignoring environmental or ecological concerns. This collection demonstrates that ecocriticism and postcolonialism must be understood as parallel projects if not facets of the very same project--a struggle for global justice and sustainability. The essays in this collection span the globe, and cover such issues as international environmental policy, land and water rights, food production, poverty, women's rights, indigenous activism, and ecotourism. They consider all manner of texts, from oral tradition to literary fiction to web discourse. Contributors bring postcolonial theory to literary traditions, such as that of the United States, not typically seen in this light, and, conversely, bring ecocriticism to literary traditions, such as those of India and China, that have seen little ecological analysis. Postcolonial Green boasts a global geographical breadth, diversity of critical approach, and increasing relevance to the issues we face on a world stage. Contributors Neel Ahuja, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill * Pavel Cenkl, Sterling College * Sharae Deckard, University College Dublin * Ursula K. Heise, Stanford University * Jonathan Highfield, Rhode Island School of Design * Alex Hunt, West Texas A&M University * Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee, Warwick University * Patrick D. Murphy, University of Central Florida * Bonnie Roos, West Texas A&M University * Caskey Russell, University of Wyoming * Rachel Stein, Siena College * Sabine Wilke, University of Washington * Laura Wright, Western Carolina University * Sheng-yen Yu, National Taipei University of Technology * Gang Yue, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill/Xiamen University |
Words on Water: Nature and Agency in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
The Hungry Tide. Ghosh problematizes the tensions between and within human communities, their respective relations with the natural world, and the extra-discursive …
The Hungry Tide Of Amitav Ghosh:- An Ecocritical Analysis - IJHSSM
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh is examined in this study through an ecocritical lens. The novel uses a variety of literary genres and techniques in the manner of literary …
An eco critical view on Amitav Ghosh's the Hungry Tide - IJNRD
Abstract: The novel "The Hungry Tide" by Amitav Ghosh, which is set in the atmospheric Sundarbans, depicts a wide range of relationships between people and nature …
Critical Ecofeminism in Amitav Ghosh’s Fiction: From The Hungry …
The Hungry Tide focuses around Bengali American cetologist Piyali Roy, or Piya, who travels to the Sundarbans to study Gangetic dolphins, famously known to be dwelling in …
The Postcolonial Uncanny; The Politics of Dispossession in Amita…
Amitav Ghoshs The Hungry Tide (2004, hereafter HT) offers a humanist critique of dispossession in the postcolonial world. It deals with people who are "out of place" and …
Amitav Ghosh’s : The Ebb and Flow of History - The Criterion
Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide: The Ebb and Flow of History Dr. Gyanabati Khuraijam Assistant Professor, Deptt. of HSS, NIT Agartala Affiliation: AICTE & Dr. Yumnam Oken Singh TGT-English JNV Ukhrul, Manipur Affiliation: CBSE Abstract: The largest delta in the world, the Sundarbans is a unique place in the world with its
FLORA, FAUNA, AND FABLES: ECOCRITICAL ELEMENTS IN AMITAV GHOSH…
of biodiversity are all addressed in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide (2004). Throughout the novel, Gosh expresses his worry for the tigers and the mangroves. The struggle between humans and non-human is the central theme of The Hungry Tide (2004). In addition, the causes of human-animal conflict have been examined, and the actual situation of ...
ECO-CRITICAL STUDY OF AMITAV GHOSH’S THE HUNGRY TIDE
ECO-CRITICAL STUDY OF AMITAV GHOSH’S THE HUNGRY TIDE ... The Hungry Tide begins with Kanai, a translator from New Delhi and Piya, a cetologist. Kanai, as soon as he saw Piya, he was astonished by the way she held herself. Piya wants to do a research on a rare species of dolphins in Canning. Kanai came to know that she is a foreigner.
STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL OF REFUGEES IN AMITAV GHOSH’S THE HUNGRY TIDE
Hungry Tide(2004), Sea of Popppies(2008), River of Smoke (2011), and Flood of Fire(2015). In The Hungry Tide, Ghosh has created a space for an open discourse on the conflict between environmentalists and the refugee settlers who fight against eviction. In The Hungry Tide, Ghosh takes up the remote Sunderban Islands as the setting for his novel.
The Status of Woman in Amitav Ghosh’s Oeuvre a Feminist …
from Indian academics mostly concentrated on the novels of Amitav Ghosh such as The Shadow Lines, The Calcutta Chromosome, In an antique Land, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide and Sea of Poppies that dealt with the questions of national identity and feminism in the sub continent. Ghosh repeats some of the national
Bioregionalism and Eco-consciousness in Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Hungry ...
The paper aims at analyzing some of the features of bioregionalism in Amitav Ghosh [s novel The Hungry Tide and also observes how it helps in building up the ecological consciousness of the community. The novel focuses on the biotic life in Sunderbans,which is essentially a bioregion. Ghosh views the Sunderban bioregion not
Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide - tlhjournal.com
Socio-centric Environmental Ethics in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide. www.TLHjournal.com Literary Herald ISSN: 2454-3365 An International Refereed/Peer-reviewed English e-Journal Impact Factor: 3.019(IIJIF) Vol. 3, Issue 3 (October 2017) ...
Ecocriticism in Amitav Ghosh's Novels - afjbs.com
ecocriticism in Ghosh's literary perspective. Amitav Ghosh's ecocritical novels and how they address environmental challenges. The study analyses The Hungry Tide, Gun Island, The Glass Palace, and The Shadow Lines to discuss how storytelling shapes ecological consciousness and promotes a sustainable future. 6. Research Methodology 6.1 Research ...
A Nexus between Myths, Legends, Climate Change, and an
Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Gun Island inculcates the issue of climate change and the different problems nature is undergoing due to human beings. Moreover, both novels brilliantly interweave tales of myth and legends that make the storyline move from Sundarbans to Venice, from Bono Devi to Manasadevi which makes the reader constantly ...
Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide: A Document on Border
Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide: A Document on Border Politics at Uncanny Spaces Unearths Dehumanization of Refugees KULDEEP MATHUR Research Scholar, MUR 1203263 Mewar University Department of English Mewar University, Chittorgarh PROF. DR. AJEET SINGH Supervisor, Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Department of English
Amitav Ghosh s The Hungry Tide: A study of eco-criticism
3. Ghosh A. The Hungry Tide. New Delhi: Harper Collins; c2004. 4. Basu S. Exploring the Bond between Man and Nature in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide. International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences. 2020;5(5):1353-5. 5. Maharajan S. An Eco Critical Approach to Amitav Ghosh’s the hungry tide. Kongunadu Research Journal.
The Implications of Ecology and Ecofeminism in Amitav Ghosh’s
The Implications of Ecology and Ecofeminism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Dr. Haider Mohammed Mezaal Al-Janabi General Directorate of Education in Babel/ Ministry of Education, Iraq Gmail: haider.alj@bab.epedu.gov.iq ... Ghosh‟s novel The Hungry Tide intricately, for instance, deals with the ecological problems underwent in the ...
Exploration of Eco critical perspective in Amitav Ghosh’s Hungry Tide ...
Amitav Ghosh‘s The Hungry Tide (2005) is one of the first Indian novels to strongly raise ecological issues in Indian fiction. Ghosh's novel reveals the interactions between the state, the poor, the fauna and flora, and the physical environment, and in doing so this work highlights both the tragedy and the hypocrisy that were inherent in the ...
Fundamental Motives in Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh - IJSRED
to use it in an exceedingly different manner. This paper is a shot as an example how Ghosh has used the motif of hunger within the literal sense of the word still as within the suggestive sense in his novel The Hungry Tide. Keywords — hunger, tide, dwellers, poverty, deprived -----*****-----I. INTRODUCTION Amitav Ghosh, one among the foremost ...
Exploration of Eco critical perspective in Amitav Ghosh’s Hungry Tide ...
Amitav Ghosh‘s The Hungry Tide (2005) is one of the first Indian novels to strongly raise ecological issues in Indian fiction. Ghosh's novel reveals the interactions between the state, the poor, the fauna and flora, and the physical environment, and in doing so this work highlights both the tragedy and the hypocrisy that were inherent in the ...
Human vs. Nonhuman: Environmental Issues and Concerns in …
The Hungry Tide (2004) by AmitavGhosh is fundamentally a study of the Sundarbans, a unique and immense archipelago home to several thousand species including the human and nonhuman, designated by the UNESCO as a World Heritage Site and Biosphere Reserve. Based on Ghosh‘s reactions in his essay ‗Folly in the
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Retelling Nature: Realism and the Postcolonial-Environmental Imaginary in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Gayathri Prabhu Since its publication in 2005, The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh has been the privileged vantage point that has defined the intersection of the large fields of postcolonial studies and
HUNGRY TIDE Preservation in the popular imaginary often …
AMITAV GHOSH'STHE HUNGRY TIDE" Dr. M. Arunachalam, M.A. B.Ed., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of English, Jamal Mohamed College, Tiruchirappalli Abstract The novel ‘The Hungry Tide’ serves to highlight the importance of ecological questions to be relevant to the Third World. The traditional
From Reverence to Destruction:- An Eco-critical approach to Amitav ...
The Hungry Tide is a 2005 novel by Indian author Amitav Ghosh. Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide deals with the study of nature writing. The book is about one of the most dynamic ecological systems of the world. This novel clearly brings out the wrath of nature and fragility of humans at the mercy of nature. The Hungry
The Global Deluge: Floods, Diluvian Imagery, and Aquatic ... - Portal
of Ghosh’s own novels: The Hungry Tide (2004) and Gun Island (2019), published before and after The Great Derangement, respectively. The Hungry Tide arguably marked Ghosh’s acceptance into the ecocritical canon, as a writer concerned with environmental justice and with overlaps of ecological and postcolonial concerns in general.
The Significance of The Title, Structure And Technique of The …
The Glass Palace (2000), The Hungry Tide (2004) and Prose Works like Dancing in Cambodia and At Large in Burma (1998), and The Imam and the Indian (2002). He has ... Amitav Ghosh is significant among those talents who, in the 1980s, generated a wave of creative effervescence in Indian fiction in English, after the initial impetus given ...
ECOFEMINISM IN THE MYTH OF MANASA IN AMITAV GHOSH…
Amitav Ghosh, master storyteller and a keen environmentalist makes deft use of folklore to drive home his ... Island and of Bonbibi and Dokkin Rai in The Hungry Tide. Goddess Manasa Devi, in all her manifestations, is a symbol of the unity of all life in nature. Her power
The Hungry Tide - IJREAM
Keywords —Amitav Ghosh, Cetology, Ecology Marichjhapi, Post-colonial Sundarbans, The Ebb and The Flood The Hungry Tide (2004), one of the master pieces of Amitav Ghosh. It won the 2004 Hutch Crossword Book Award for fiction. This book narrates the story of Piya Roy, an Indo-American cetologist. Piya Roy visits Sundarbans in
The Home, the Tide, and the World: Eco-cosmopolitan Encounters …
Eco-cosmopolitan Encounters in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Alexa Weik University of California, San Diego Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Vols. 13.2 - 14.1 2006-2007
Chronotopes of “Places” and “Non places”: Ecopoetics of Amitav Ghosh…
(Amitav Ghosh, The Hungry Tide 275) (Italics in original) The corpus of Amitav Ghosh‟s fiction expands while panning through wide-angle lenses of themes. The Hungry Tide (2004) by Ghosh is a unique combination of anthropology, migration, travel, environmentalism, ethnography, photography and landscape; wrapped under the cloak of fiction. ...
Women as a Social Reformer in The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh …
Amitav Ghosh has brought out the real struggle of women characters at various social statuses; he has pictured an ideal ... In The Hungry Tide, the character Piya is a cytologist by profession, brought up in United States is an independent traveler who cannot speak her mother tongue, Bengali. But she never considers that as a hindrance, as her ...
Nature s influence in Amitav Ghosh s the hungry tide
and Helen state: “The eager tide… a supports a rational unprotected strategy without thorough advice and support" (Huggan, 2011, p. 105) [5]. The motivation of this article is to restore the influence of nature on the existence of the characters of Amitav Ghosh - The Hungry Tide, their journey for to fight monstrous.
Post Colonial impact in The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide deals with the dispossession of humankind in the post colonial world. The novel is set in the Sunderbans, which is situated in the lower region of the Ganges delta and extends up to 250 km from the Hugli River estuary in West Bengal, India, to the banks of the Meghan River in Bangladesh.
An Ecology and Eco-Criticism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide …
an ecological analysis and the eco-critical reading of Amitav Ghosh’s e Hungry Tide. Keywords: Afforestation, Ecology, Eco-criticism, Ecocritical, Refugees. “If you want to taste the real meaning of life for hundreds and thousands of years, then enjoy afforestation”. Rig-Veda Amitav Ghosh is one of the greatest novelists of Indian English
Island Studies Journal , Vol. 6, No. 1, 2011, pp. 3-16 Reading the ...
Amitav Ghosh’s 2004 novel The Hungry Tide is set in the Sundarbans, the lower region of the Ganges delta, which extends over 250 km from the Hugli River estuary in West Bengal, India, to the banks of the Meghna River in Bangladesh.
The Postcolonial Uncanny; The Politics of Dispossession in Amitav Ghosh ...
Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide Pramod K. Nayar Pramod K. Nayar teaches in the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. He is the author of English Writing and India, 1600 1920: Colonizing Aesthetics (2008), Packaging Life: Cultures of the Everyday (2009) and An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures (2010).
The Politics of Knowledge in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Hungry Tide exemplifies Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee’s eco-materialist assertion of the “indivisibility of humans and environment, the interpenetration of nature and history, [and] the dynamic relation between the two established via human” interaction (61). Even more, according to Shakti Jaising, Ghosh’s novel ...
The Postcolonial Aesthetics of Beauty, Nature and Form: …
26 Sep 2024 · Amitav Ghosh, namely, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide and The Shadow Lines, to each of which a chapter will be dedicated. My reading of these novels will focus on the ways in which aesthetics function in a postcolonial context, and will foreground the very specific techniques employed by Ghosh in each novel.
FEAR AND ETHICS IN THE SUNDARBANS
Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide has been often interpreted from the point of view of postcolonial studies and environmental studies, overlooking the anthropological implications of the narrative. This paper investigates the worship and the myth of the sylvan deity Bonbibi, and of her counterpart, the demon Dakshin Rai. ...
Ecological Narratives and Cultural Encounters: Exploring Themes …
Amitav Ghosh in The Hungry Tide has portrayed two such varied plots. Firstly, it seeks to investigate displaced people and second is how humans share dangerous and complicated ecosystems with animals. Where they is contrasting elements of love, bond, emotional interdependence shared between humans and
ECOLOGICAL CRISIS IN AMITAV GHOSH’S THE GREAT …
Amitav Ghosh published his non-fiction The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable in 2016. The main concern of the work is on Climate change and reverse order of weather ... through the reading of Hungry Tide, The Great Derangement, Gun Island and The Sea of Poppies by Ghosh. Ghosh examines the inadequacy of our present culture ...
Fixity Amid Flux: Aesthetics and Environmentalism in Amitav Ghosh…
in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide Shakti Jaising Abstract: This essay explores the formal means by which Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2004), a novel set in the Sundarbans islands, articulates an environmental politics that reconciles social justice and ecological concerns. However, the novel’s internal
The Hungry Tide: A Portrait of the Onerous Subsistence in the …
conspicuously over and again in majority of his novels and non-fictions. The present article zeroes in on how The Hungry Tide of Amitav Ghosh demarcates realistic and witnessed images of the inhuman ways of subsistence of poverty stricken and oppressed folk clans in Sundarbans located in the vicinity of India-Bangladesh border.
Portrayal of Indian diaspora in Amitav Ghosh's the shadow lines
Chromosome (1995), The Glass Palace (2000), The Hungry Tide (2004), Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011), The Flood of Fire (2015), the three books of The Ibis Trilogy. Maximum of his works deal with historical issues. The non-fiction works are In an ... Amitav Ghosh ‟ s fiction is expressive of an urge to
Fear and Love in the Tide Country: Affect, Environment, and ... - url
This paper examines Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Hungry Tide (2004) to explore Ghosh’s dramatization of the affective impacts of a specific environment on local subjects, and the role cosmopolitan subjects play in translating those affects into knowable forms through their embodied and affective encounters with the local.
Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide: Intoning Silence - World Wide …
Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide: Intoning Silence Mrs. Kamini Bhasin Associate Lecturer, Humanities Dept., Jaypee University Of Engg. & Technology, Guna(M.P.) Keywords Intoning silence, subalterns, Postcolonial literary scenario, unhistorical figures etc
Tracing the Postcolonial Ecocritical Aspects of Amitav Ghosh’s …
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh is incredibly lyrical about the environmental issues of the Sundarbans, the mangrove forests among the sea, and the Bengali plains, which are losing their biodiversity. This concern for ecological equilibrium is evident throughout the novel. Mashima, One of the novel’s protagonists,
POSTCOLONIAL ECOCRITICAL STUDY OF THE HUNGRY TIDE …
POSTCOLONIAL ECOCRITICAL STUDY OF THE HUNGRY TIDE SAURABH KUMAR1, Dr. SUBHASH VERMA2 1Ph. D Research Scholar, Career Point University, Kota (Rajasthan) ... Same is the case with Amitav Ghosh as he has also shown a great concern for the human pathos. Although Ghosh does not fit into any single category, but on the basis of later part of his ...
Against the Waves of Globalization in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
In The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh reveals problems of people controlled by two ferocious beasts of globalization: cosmopolitanism and consumerism. First, cosmopolitanism disregards the suffering of the subalterns. For example, Piya, as a cosmopolitan environmentalist
The Hungry Tide - The Criterion
The Hungry Tide: A Blend of Historico-Environmental Concerns . Sheenam . Research Scholar . Central University of Punjab . Bathinda. ... Amitav Ghosh is one of the most prominent writers focusing on the issues of post colonial era. Born to an Indian middle class family on 11 July 1956, in Kolkata, he spent
Climate Change in Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement, The Hungry Tide ...
Climate Change in Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement, The Hungry Tide and Gun Island Sous la direction de Prof. Marc DELREZ Mémoire présenté par Mathilde DUTRIEUX en vue de l’obtention du grade de Master en Langues et Lettres Modernes, orientation Germaniques, à finalité spécialisée en didactique Année académique 2020-2021
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Hungry Tide Amitav Ghosh Hungry Tide: A Journey into the Sundarbans Amitav Ghosh's Hungry Tide (2004) is more than just a novel; it's a captivating exploration of the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, and the lives interwoven with its complex ecosystem. This sprawling narrative delves into
Spatial Literary Theory in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
Spatial Literary Theory in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide the islanders and their land, which disturbs the entire harmony. Morichjhãpi, said Nilima, was a tide country island a couple of hours from Lusibari by boat. It fell within a part of the Sundarbans reserved for tiger conservation, but unlike many such islands it was relatively easily ...
The Evolutionary of Geographical Research in Amitav Ghosh’s …
Abstract: Amitav Ghosh crafted another fascinating and ambitious novel, The Hungry Tide(2004), about a place that remains remote and exotic to many readers and about a community of people who live on the periphery of the Indian subconscious, the dispossessed of the tide country. The Hungry Tide does not have the
