E-Book, Englisch, 167 Seiten, eBook
E-Book, Englisch, 167 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Maritime Literature and Culture
ISBN: 978-3-030-77056-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Ibis
Trilogy
studies Ghosh’s
Sea of Poppies
(2008),
River of Smoke
(2011) and
Flood of Fire
(2015) in relation to maritime criticism. Juan-José Martín-González 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 today’s 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, Martín-González 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.
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Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
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 Ghosh’s
Sea of Poppies
(2008).- 4. Of Hongs, Achhas, and Fanqui-Town: Amitav Ghosh’s
River of Smoke
(2011).- 5. Of Buchas, Opium Wars, and the
Kali Yuga
: Amitav Ghosh’s
Flood of Fire
(2015).- 6. Conclusion.
