someone else’s reality. Amitav Ghosh in his book The Shadow Lines (1988) dwells on reality as a construction‚ that is‚ reality as an individual creates it for him/herself. This paper will look at the construction of reality for us by the Author‚ narrator and the various other characters in the story and thus giving the reader the reality effect or realism. One of the ways in which reality is constructed in The Shadow Lines (1988) is by the use of detail. For one Amitav Ghosh naturalizes the text by
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Bibliography: Primary Sources Equiano‚ Olaudah‚ The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or‚ Gustavus Vassa‚ the African (New York: Modern Library Classics‚ 2004) Ghosh‚ Amitav‚ The Hungry Tide (London: HarperCollins Publishers‚ 2005) Secondary Sources Caretta‚ Vincent‚ The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (London: Penguin Classics‚ 2003) Curtis‚ K‚ 2010 Haynes‚ Carolyn A.‚ Divine Destiny: Gender and Race in Nineteenth-Century
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In The Shadow Lines and The Hungry Ghosts‚ both Amitav Ghosh and Shyam Selvadurai‚ critique the emphasis that society puts on geo-political borders by acknowledging that we live in a world that is deeply inter-connected. Spanning different countries and continents‚ both of the novels explore issues of identity and belonging that are unique to the diaspora. This is accomplished through the characterization of a grandmother who is displaced from her homeland due to the Bengal Partition and the struggles
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The story of Tridib in ‘Shadow Lines’ remain incomplete without the influence‚ or rather we should say the contribution‚ of the women characters in the novel. Main women characters in the novel namely Ila‚ May and the grandmother of the narrator‚ have a great influence on the coming-of-age of the narrator. It is important to understand their influence on the narrator first before that on Tridib‚ because Tridib is narrator’s mentor here‚ his alter-ego and mirror image. Tridib’s correspondences
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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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