Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy 2021 Edition Contributor(s): Martín-González, Juan-José (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030770559 ISBN-13: 9783030770556 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $75.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2021 |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.81 lbs) 167 pages |
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Publisher Description: Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh's 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. |