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Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy


Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh's Ibis Trilogy


Maritime Literature and Culture

von: Juan-José Martín-González

69,54 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 23.06.2021
ISBN/EAN: 9783030770563
Sprache: englisch

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<i>Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s&nbsp;</i>Ibis<i>&nbsp;Trilogy&nbsp;</i>studies Ghosh’s&nbsp;<i>Sea of Poppies&nbsp;</i>(2008),&nbsp;<i>River of Smoke&nbsp;</i>(2011) and&nbsp;<i>Flood of Fire&nbsp;</i>(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&nbsp;<i>Ibis&nbsp;</i>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&nbsp;<i>Ibis</i>&nbsp;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.
1. Introduction.- 2. The ‘Oceanic Turn’ and the Indian Ocean: Maritime Criticism, Cosmopolitanism and Nineteenth-Century Oceanic Culture.- 3. Of Coolies, Lascars, and the <i>Kala Pani</i>: Amitav Ghosh’s <i>Sea of Poppies</i> (2008).- 4. Of Hongs, Achhas, and Fanqui-Town: Amitav Ghosh’s <i>River of Smoke </i>(2011).- 5. Of Buchas, Opium Wars, and the <i>Kali Yuga</i>: Amitav Ghosh’s <i>Flood of Fire</i> (2015).- 6. Conclusion.
<b>Juan-José Martín-González</b>&nbsp;is Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Málaga, Spain. He researches and publishes in the fields of maritime and migration studies, neo-Victorian fiction and postcolonialism.
<div>“What can be more pertinent than an excellent, transoceanic reading of Amitav Ghosh's excellent, transoceanic trilogy? This study is significant not just for its fresh reading of Ghosh's novels but also its critical interventions in such pressing and topical matters as globalization.”</div> <p>—<b>Tabish Khair</b>, Associate Professor of English, Aarhus University, Denmark, and author of&nbsp;<i>The Thing About Thugs</i>&nbsp;(2010)</p>

<p>&nbsp;“In this very timely addition to Indian Ocean studies, Martín-González provides a highly textured reading of Amitav Ghosh’s <i>Ibis</i> Trilogy. The author masterfully locates the trilogy within the current focus on transoceanic studies by drawing on a multiplicity of disciplines without losing sight of Ghosh’s literary talent. This study is an exciting new slant on Ghosh’s work which poses pressing questions about the significance of cosmopolitanism in the Global South.”</p><p></p>

<p>—<b>Felicity Hand</b>, Senior Lecturer of English, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, and editor of <i>Durban Dialogues Dissected: An Analysis of Ashwin Singh's Plays</i> (2020)</p>

<p><i>Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s&nbsp;</i>Ibis<i>&nbsp;Trilogy&nbsp;</i>studies Ghosh’s&nbsp;<i>Sea of Poppies</i>&nbsp;(2008),&nbsp;<i>River of Smoke</i>&nbsp;(2011) and&nbsp;<i>Flood of Fire</i>&nbsp;(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<i>&nbsp;Ibis</i>&nbsp;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&nbsp;<i>Ibis</i>&nbsp;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.<br></p><div><b>Juan-José Martín-González</b>&nbsp;is Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Málaga, Spain. He researches and publishes in the fields of maritime and migration studies, neo-Victorian fiction and postcolonialism.<br></div>
Contributes to the latest debates in postcolonial thought and globalization studies Demonstrates how Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy records the changing notions of cosmopolitanism Extends neo-Victorian studies to encapsulate a postcolonial maritime studies
“In this very timely addition to Indian Ocean studies, Martín-González provides a highly textured reading of Amitav Ghosh’s <i>Ibis</i> Trilogy. The author masterfully locates the trilogy within the current focus on transoceanic studies by drawing on a multiplicity of disciplines without losing sight of Ghosh’s literary talent. This study is an exciting new slant on Ghosh’s work which poses pressing questions about the significance of cosmopolitanism in the Global South.” (<b>Felicity Hand</b>, Senior Lecturer of English, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, and editor of Durban Dialogues Dissected: An Analysis of Ashwin Singh's Plays (2020))<div><br></div><div>“What can be more pertinent than an excellent, transoceanic reading of Amitav Ghosh's excellent, transoceanic trilogy? This study is significant not just for its fresh reading of Ghosh's novels but also its critical interventions in such pressing and topical matters as globalization.”&nbsp;(<b>Tabish Khair</b>, Associate Professor of English, Aarhus University, Denmark, and author of&nbsp;<i>The Thing About Thugs</i>&nbsp;(2010))</div><div><br></div><div>"Through a series of richly detailed readings, <i>Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s </i>Ibis<i> Trilogy</i> brings timely critical focus to Ghosh’s figuring of the Indian Ocean. Situating the transoceanic spaces and encounters in these works as sites of transformative possibility, Martin-Gonzalez’s work is similarly one of illuminating potentiality in the incisive advances that it generates in dialogues between maritime criticism and postcolonial studies." (<b>Charlotte Mathieson</b>, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, University of Surrey, UK, author of <i>Mobility in the Victorian Novel: Placing the Nation</i> (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and co-editor of the Palgrave series Studies in Mobilities, Literature, Culture with Marian Aguiar and Lynne Pearce)</div><div><br></div><div>“This book provides an in-depth analysis of Amitav Ghosh’s<i> Ibis </i>Trilogy in relation to the Oceanic turn and maritime criticism in literary studies, offering a pertinent intervention in debates on capitalism, globalisation diaspora and migration. Drawing comparisons between the neo-Victorian representation of empire in the novels and contemporary trajectories of globalisation and the inequities inherent in it, this book reveals a new direction in the way in which Ocean worlds need to be considered in relation to postcolonial paradigms.” (<b>Florian Stadtler</b>, Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures, University of Exeter, UK)<p></p>

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