| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Maritime literature and culture |
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Maritime literature and culture.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. The Oceanic Turn and the Indian Ocean: Maritime Criticism, Cosmopolitanism and Nineteenth-Century Oceanic Culture -- 3. Of Coolies, Lascars, and the Kala Pani: Amitav Ghoshs Sea of Poppies (2008) -- 4. Of Hongs, Achhas, and Fanqui-Town: Amitav Ghoshs River of Smoke (2011) -- 5. Of Buchas, Opium Wars, and the Kali Yuga: Amitav Ghoshs Flood of Fire (2015) -- 6. Conclusion |
| Summary |
Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghoshs Ibis Trilogy studies Ghoshs Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015) in relation to maritime criticism. Juan-Jose Martin-Gonzalez draws upon the intersections between maritime criticism and postcolonial thought to provide, via an analysis of the Ibis trilogy, alternative insights into nationalism(s), cosmopolitanism and globalization. He shows that the Victorian age in its transoceanic dimension can be read as an era of proto-globalization that facilitates a materialist critique of the inequities of contemporary global neo-liberalism. The book argues that in order to maintain its critical sharpness, postcolonialism must re-direct its focus towards todays most obvious legacy of nineteenth-century imperialism: capitalist globalization. Tracing the migrating characters who engage in transoceanic crossings through Victorian sea lanes in the Ibis trilogy, Martin-Gonzalez explores how these dispossessed collectives made sense of their identities in the Victorian waterworlds and illustrates the political possibilities provided by the sea crossing and its fluid boundaries. Juan-Jose Martin-Gonzalez is Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Malaga, Spain. He researches and publishes in the fields of maritime and migration studies, neo-Victorian fiction and postcolonialism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 30, 2021) |
| Subject |
Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- Sea of poppies.
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Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- River of smoke
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Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- Flood of fire.
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| SUBJECT |
Ghosh, Amitav, 1956- fast |
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Globalization in literature.
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Sea in literature.
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Globalization in literature
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Sea in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030770563 |
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3030770567 |
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