Routes Beyond Roots: Alternative Ecological Histories in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies

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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:92e4822c31594afeab1a54bd2affb99f2021-12-02T17:00:41ZRoutes Beyond Roots: Alternative Ecological Histories in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies2339-852310.5565/rev/indialogs.78https://doaj.org/article/92e4822c31594afeab1a54bd2affb99f2017-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/indialogs/article/view/78https://doaj.org/toc/2339-8523<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;" align="justify"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This article will read Amitav Ghosh's novel </span></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><em><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sea of Poppies </span></em></span><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">as an account of “world histories from below” (Antoinette Burton, 2012) and position the writing of alternative histories of the colonial times within an ecocritical context. While such rewritings have always been a central preoccupation of postcolonial literature, the recent tendency has been to look at history from increasingly local, individualised perspectives. I will examine Ghosh's tracing of routes and connectivities across the Indian Ocean at the time immediately preceding the opium wars, focusing on his reconsideration of human relationships and hierarchies in an ecocritical perspective. This perspective cuts across boundaries established by caste, class, biology, geography and the colonial system, which Ghosh has long been </span></span></span><span lang="en-GB">interested</span><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> in re-evaluating. While on board the </span></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><em><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ibis </span></em></span><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">identities become deterritorialised and fluid, they are disconnected from their roots and paths established by rigid culturally conditioned frameworks. Connections are established between the human and other forms of life, forming a continuum across the trade routes of the Indian Ocean, which becomes a fluid space of rebuilding identities. I will use a theoretical framework informed by Bruno Latour's concept of a politics of nature, Donna Haraway's nature-culture negotiations and Rosi Braidotti's eco-conscious ethics.</span></span></span></p>Maria-Sabina Draga AlexandruUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticleroutes, roots, ecology, alternative histories, politics of nature, indian oceanGeneral WorksAENESIndialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, Vol 4, Iss 0, Pp 37-50 (2017)
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description	<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 150%;" align="justify"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This article will read Amitav Ghosh's novel </span></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><em><span style="font-weight: normal;">Sea of Poppies </span></em></span><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">as an account of “world histories from below” (Antoinette Burton, 2012) and position the writing of alternative histories of the colonial times within an ecocritical context. While such rewritings have always been a central preoccupation of postcolonial literature, the recent tendency has been to look at history from increasingly local, individualised perspectives. I will examine Ghosh's tracing of routes and connectivities across the Indian Ocean at the time immediately preceding the opium wars, focusing on his reconsideration of human relationships and hierarchies in an ecocritical perspective. This perspective cuts across boundaries established by caste, class, biology, geography and the colonial system, which Ghosh has long been </span></span></span><span lang="en-GB">interested</span><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> in re-evaluating. While on board the </span></span></span><span lang="en-GB"><em><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ibis </span></em></span><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">identities become deterritorialised and fluid, they are disconnected from their roots and paths established by rigid culturally conditioned frameworks. Connections are established between the human and other forms of life, forming a continuum across the trade routes of the Indian Ocean, which becomes a fluid space of rebuilding identities. I will use a theoretical framework informed by Bruno Latour's concept of a politics of nature, Donna Haraway's nature-culture negotiations and Rosi Braidotti's eco-conscious ethics.</span></span></span></p>
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Routes Beyond Roots: Alternative Ecological Histories in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies

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