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- Title
Cosmopolitanism in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines.
- Authors
Ghosh, Anisha
- Abstract
Being the son of an ex-army officer turned diplomat, Ghosh grew up in East Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Iran and India. His education and then his teaching career took him places beginning from England to Tunisia, from Egypt to America to India. Presently he is settled in New York with his family and makes a yearly visit to Kolkata. This kind of an upbringing and career graph makes Ghosh a citizen of the world and is perhaps, to a certain extent, responsible for shaping his cosmopolitan outlook that is the most eminent theme in his The Shadow Lines only second to and corollary of its major theme-the dubious nature of borders between nations and also between individuals. Cosmopolitanism can be defined as one's capacity to feel at home in the world-one's easy acceptance of the culture, tradition and value system of different communities. The true spirit of cosmopolitanism obliterates borders between nations and cultures and also between persons. In Ghosh's novel we get a true cosmopolitan in Tridib and also in the nameless narrator of the novel who attempts to feel this spirit with his imagination. This paper attempts to analyse how imagination shapes the spirit of cosmopolitanism in The Shadow Lines and how the dearth of it leads to catastrophe.
- Subjects
SHADOW Lines, The (Book); GHOSH, Amitav, 1956-; COSMOPOLITANISM in literature; IMAGINATION; FICTION; LITERARY criticism
- Publication
Writers Editors Critics, 2015, Vol 5, Issue 1, p83
- ISSN
2231-198X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism