Displacement & Identity in Amitav Ghosh Novels - Paperback

by Joseph A (Author)

The book deals with the idea of Displacement and Identity in respect to the novels of Amitav Ghosh. Detailed Study has been carried out to explain the concept of Displacement and Identity. The various novels of Amitav Ghosh has been scrutinized and explored to explain the idea of the above mentioned two concepts. Ghosh's works provide a thoughtful sensitive view of existing problems that makes him a significant contemporary writer. Amitav Ghosh's creative output is staggeringly wide, ranging from geography and history, to colonial and postcolonial issues. We also see in his works a blend of history and fiction and other aspects as chauvinism and parochialism against the rigidities, which offers enormous scope for literary research. Amitav Ghosh's writings endeavour creatively to negotiate through the complex web of historical, political, economic, and cultural displacement related to past and contemporary times. Ghosh writes about perpetual anomalies of human's issues of displacement and identity of his characters so minutely.