After reading many novels throughout my life I would place‚ The Shadow Lines‚ by Amitav Ghosh‚ in my top 10 list. The novel is based on the narrator who was English educated but Indian born. The narrator illustrates and shares his views of foreign countries which he has never been to with other characters in the novel. Even though the narrator is English educated his values‚ ethics‚ and culture is more Indian than an American. Many of us now notice that when a person migrates from one country
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The Shadow Lines (1988)‚ The Calcutta Chromosome (1995)‚ The Glass Palace (2000)‚ The Hungry Tide(2004)‚ and Sea of Poppies (2008)‚ the first volume of The Ibis trilogy‚ set in the 1830s‚ just before the Opium War‚ which encapsulates the colonial history of the East. Ghosh ’s latest work of fiction is River of Smoke (2011)‚ the second volume of The Ibis trilogy. Most of his works deals with an historical setting‚ especially
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Aadya Prasad Dr Vikram Kapur 603 Advance Academic Writing Literary Review on ’’Cosmopolitanism” The Shadow Lines Cosmopolitanism is a space of cultural and ethnic transaction where characters seek to overthrow artificial frontiers to come to terms with the reality of cultural and political transformations. Moreover‚ cosmopolitanism also refer to cross-cultural practices of imagining or remembering space and place in the novel. Nadia Butt addresses the representation of
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Difference in Memory MAHUA SARKAR Sociology‚ Binghamton University‚ SUNY Everyone lives in a story . . . because stories are all there is to live in‚ it was just a question of which one you chose . . . (Amitav Ghosh‚ The Shadow Lines)1 INTRODUCTION The study of popular memory is necessarily relational. It involves the exploration of two sets of relations: (1) that between dominant memory and oppositional forms across the public field‚ including academic productions; and (2) the relation between
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Why does Jun’ichirō Tanizaki label his compilation of essays as an appraisal of shadows? What influenced his writing choices and inspired his word choice? The title is originally 陰翳礼讃 which in Japanese translates to Shadow of Praise and in Chinese translates to Shine. However‚ when one explores into the anatomy of those original words in Chinese; 陰 translates to Yin which is a Chinese philosophy characterized as feminine‚ sustaining‚ earthly‚ dark‚ cold‚ and opposite to the Yang philosophy; 翳 translates
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The Shadow Throne The Shadow Throne‚ by Jennifer A. Nielsen‚ is the third and final book in the Ascendance trilogy. It is an action and adventure fantasy story about a young King. The story mainly takes place in a country called Carthya‚ in the middle ages when Kings and Queens ruled the land. King Jargon has many adventures while trying to protect his country‚ his people‚ and his friends in the fight for Carthya’s future. King Jargon is a young King‚ who has brown‚ rough-looking hair‚ green eyes
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The Shadow Throne: The final adventure War is coming to Carthya! This story opens in the country of Carthya‚ they are ruled by their young King Jaron. Hostile nations surround this peaceful country. One in particular‚ brodering from the south is Avenia. Their king is bent on overthrowing Jaron and taking all the land for himself. Jaron is surrounded with no way to escape‚ he will have to use every trick he knows to keep Carthya free. This story has enough action to satisfy any reader‚ and maybe the
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The book The Shadow of the Galilean is a fictional story. The main character is a guy named Andres. He is a Jewish merchant that is from the first century of Palestine. It starts off with Andres being locked up in this cell. The Romans had put Andres in a cell and they started interrogating him. They asked him why he was going against Pilate. He told the man he was not gogin against Pilate but that did not matter. He was still help captive. The Romans came back to Andres and they had told him that
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All through Part five of her book Shadows of War‚ Carolyn Nordstrom shares her perspectives on war regarding social‚ physical and mental objectives and rebuffs of such viciousness. To start‚ one of the main objectives of war as characterized by Nordstrom is an immediate consequence of a risk of loss of control. She clarifies that it is basic for one military to want to decimate another when their control over a specific (arrive range claimed or controlled by somebody) is under risk (56). A fascinating
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Study Guide King of Shadows by Susan Cooper For the online version of BookRags’ King of Shadows Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-king-of-shadows/ Copyright Information © 2000-2013 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Study Guide 1 Plot Summary King of Shadows by Susan Cooper is a tale about a young boy’s journey to overcome his devastating past in exchange for a hopeful future. Nat is an orphan who escapes into the world of
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