Finding Oneself On Board the Ibis in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4771602 |
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| Authors | Rudrani Gangopadhyay (0000-0003-3461-8119, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 55-64 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women's studies quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0732-1562 • E-ISSN: 1934-1520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/wsq.2017.0012 |
| OpenAlex | W2604283820 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
In Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies, a motley crew of people, who perhaps would have never come across one another on land in the Empire, are brought together at sea. Through the experience of displacement, they find their voices and redesign their new identities. Ghosh's novel becomes a vessel to renegotiate the discourse of subalternity from the perspective of this diasporic population as the ship in his novel navigates through the "dark water" of the Indian Ocean. This article explores the way in which Ghosh's characters—all victimized by various power structures, including gender, class, and race divisions—strive to find a place of their own, and the way in which the sea becomes that space
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Crew · Empire · Ibis · Linguistics · Motley · Physics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Visual arts · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora · Geology
| Highly cited | No |
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