Land, River, Sea: The Articulated Space of the Indian Ocean in Amitav Ghoshâs Ibis Trilogy

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Chapter 18 Land, River, Sea

The Articulated Space of the Indian Ocean in Amitav Ghoshâs Ibis Trilogy

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This essay investigates Amitav Ghoshâs Ibis trilogy as an Indian Ocean epic that bears the traces of recent transnational scholarship on the region. Focussing on the Indian Ocean is a way of subverting dominant Eurocentric historiography. The essay examines the themes and spatial motifs around which the novels are organized and the ways in which the spatial dynamics operating in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean world are represented. The Indian Ocean was an open space where different cultures came together, which Ghosh utilizes as a background for his narrative project. In particular, the article problematizes the notion of modern epic, proposing the alternative notion of postcolonial epic, and looks at the Indian Ocean as an alternative space from which colonial history may be written.

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Amitav Ghoshâs Culture Chromosome

Anthropology, Epistemology, Ethics, Space

Series:Â Cross/Cultures, Volume: 216

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004360341

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 28 Oct 2021

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