Reading the Postcolonial Island in Amitav Ghosh’s the Hungry Tide
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. To this end, it discusses Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (200...
Main Author: | Lisa Fletcher |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Island Studies Journal
2011-04-01
|
Series: | Island Studies Journal |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.248 |
Similar Items
-
The Back Mutation in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
by: Fırat Yıldız
Published: (2014-02-01) -
Consciousness-Raising in Amitav Ghosh’s Ecocritical Novel The Hungry Tide
by: Tej N Dhar
Published: (2020-09-01) -
THE UNCANNY AND THE SECULAR IN AMITAV GHOSH’S THE GREAT DERANGEMENT AND THE HUNGRY TIDE
by: Alessandro Vescovi
Published: (2017-11-01) -
Fear and Ethics in the Sundarbans. Anthropology in Amitav Ghosh’s "The Hungry Tide"
by: Alessandro Vescovi
Published: (2014-07-01) -
The Discourse of Othering Nature: Ecocritical Reading of Wild Rare Animals in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
by: بهمن زرین جویی
Published: (2017-08-01)