Volume : III, Issue : VIII, August - 2013

Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide: Intoning Silence

Mrs. Kamini Bhasin

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Amitav Ghosh is an iconic figure in English literature whose vision and treatment of history is quite different as he does not focus upon kings and queens to interpret history. Instead of it he focuses upon the history of ordinary unhistorical figures of the past in his novels. This research paper is an attempt to present the framework of Ghosh’s style of voicing the unvoiced, the silence of the Others or Subaltern . Ghosh’s style of giving voice to the silence or intoning silence is going to be taken into account here. The aim of this paper is to analyse the narrative strategies employed by the author to integrate the fictional and historical characters and to recreate the history of nations by filling up the gaps and absence. This paper is an attempt to illustrate the position of Amitav Ghosh in the postcolonial literary scenario and his role in reconstructing the lost culture heritage and myths of the communities he came into contact.

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Mrs. Kamini Bhasin Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide: Intoning Silence Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.VIII August 2013

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