UNDERSTANDING THE DISASTER UNCONSCIOUS: THE MARICHJHAPI MASSACRE DEPICTING PRECARIOUS LIVES AND VULNERABLE ECOLOGIES IN AMITAV GHOSH'S THE HUNGRY TIDE.
The paper situates the massacre of Dalit refugees of Marichjhapi Island (1978-79) in West Bengal, India through a multidisciplinary reading of Amitav Ghosh's novel The Hungry Tide (2004) along with local history, vernacular literature, reports and experiential narratives. The refugees from East Paki...
| Publicado en: | Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies & Theory Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 95 - 119 |
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Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj, Faculty of Letters
Dec2023
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