Travelling Through a <i>Sea of Poppies</i>: from the Geographical to the Cultural Frontier

The paper focuses on the relation between the concepts of geographical and cultural frontiers, using Sea of Poppies (2008), Amitav Ghosh’s last novel, as a case study. Indeed, the journey of the ship Ibis from the Gulf of Bengal to the Mauritius islands provides the backdrop against which the theme...

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Main Author: Elisabetta Zurru
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UNICApress 2011-05-01
Series:Between
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Online Access:http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/95