A Sea of Violence and Love: Precarity, Eco-Fiction and the American Factor in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
This paper will interrogate a set of popular tropes and clichés that have become characteristic of the emerging genre of eco-fiction (eg. an impending threat such as an ecological disaster; endangered nature as a force in its own right which protects and threatens the human being; the uselessness of...
Main Author: | Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAES
2019-11-01
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Series: | Angles |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/angles/1175 |
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