TRANSHISTORICAL CONNECTIVITIES AROUND THE INDIAN OCEAN: Western Colonialism and Climate Change in Amitav Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse.

This article argues that Amitav Ghosh's non-fiction book The Nutmeg's Curse illustrates the ways in which the proto-global entanglement of chaotic colonial forces, which proliferates across space and time, has played an important part in the current climate change. Ghosh imagines the Indian Ocean as...

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Publicado en:Kritika Kultura no. 41; pp. 293 - 316
Autor principal: Alexandru, Maria-Sabina Draga
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Publicado: Kritika Kultura Aug2023
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Sumario:This article argues that Amitav Ghosh's non-fiction book The Nutmeg's Curse illustrates the ways in which the proto-global entanglement of chaotic colonial forces, which proliferates across space and time, has played an important part in the current climate change. Ghosh imagines the Indian Ocean as a melting pot of rhizomatic energies of imperial aggression and local resistance, but also of new emerging life, with the agency of nature playing a very important part in the latter. I aim to show this in a combined Deleuzian, postcolonial, and ecocritical reading, with elements of chaos theory meant to provide possible interpretations to climate change phenomena in Ghosh's narrative projection.