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- Title
Memory to Merge Space and Time in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome.
- Authors
PANKAJ, KUMAR
- Abstract
In the latter half of the 20th century Indian English literature became a matter of serious attention for the lovers of English literature. Amitav Ghosh is one of the authors who made people realise the importance of Indian writings in English. Ghosh is the only writer who reflects truth of Indian reality and bears many responsibility of a veteran author who created sensation in the world English literature. Ghosh is a master author who uses history, migration and memory to develop his plots in most of his novels. The way Ghosh uses his private memory to construct his novels is unique in every sense. It is seen that there is no barriers of time and space in his fiction. Ghosh's use of time presents an interesting innovation. Ghosh intermingles present, past and future into one and does not arrange historical events in a chronological order. Time and Space are important elements of the novel, The Calcutta Chromosome. In this novel Time has been used as an important element but the constant time shift leave the reader confused. We often get the impression that events lie outside the normal dimensions of time. By using his memory, Ghosh tries to merge time and space in The Calcutta Chromosome. Ghosh's memory connects the past to the present and many of the characters live more in the past than in the present. My objective in this paper would be to show how Ghosh uses his memory to merge space and time.
- Subjects
GHOSH, Amitav, 1956-; 20TH century English literature; CALCUTTA Chromosome, The (Book); EMIGRATION &; immigration; SCIENCE fiction
- Publication
Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies, 2019, Vol 10, Issue 4, p116
- ISSN
0976-0814
- Publication type
Article