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趙穎璿 and Wing-suen Chiu. "Representations and problematics of hybridity in Amitav Ghosh." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/192982.

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Hybridity has been a privileged theory in post-colonial writings. It is considered as a source of empowerment that resists oppositional binarism and monolithic discourses that characterize dominant Western historical representations. Amitav Ghosh’s In An Antique Land and his ongoing Ibis Trilogy are historiographic projects that instantiate, both textually and formally, the employment of hybridity in resistance of cultural and political suppression. However, Ghosh at the same time interrogates the discourse of hybridity by highlighting its problematics. Such ambivalent stance creates a paradox that the author leaves open as a site for critical debates. Employing the strength of hybridity, Ghosh rewrites history and challenges the critiques that disapprove the theory for its lack of ethics and suggests that the theory of hybridity can fulfill our ethical imperatives by excavating forgotten voices of the past.
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Ghosh, Biswa Nath [Verfasser]. "Multivalent binding in platinum metal complexes / Biswa Nath Ghosh." Gießen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1064990460/34.

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Ghosh, Biswanath [Verfasser]. "Multivalent binding in platinum metal complexes / Biswa Nath Ghosh." Gießen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2011. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hebis:26-opus-84600.

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Ghosh, Raoul [Verfasser], Almut [Akademischer Betreuer] Balleer, and Rüdiger [Akademischer Betreuer] Bachmann. "Essays in applied econometrics / Raoul Ghosh ; Almut Balleer, Rüdiger Bachmann." Aachen : Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen, 2016. http://d-nb.info/116863587X/34.

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Ghosh, Manimay. "Design rules, metaroutines, and boundary objects - a framework for improving healthcare delivery systems." Diss., Montana State University, 2006. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2006/ghosh/GhoshM1206.pdf.

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Ghosh, Sadhan [Verfasser]. "Charge induced tunable magnetic properties in transition metal alloys / Sadhan Ghosh." Karlsruhe : Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, 2008. http://d-nb.info/989599701/34.

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Ghosh, Sanjukta [Verfasser]. "Deep Counting Models and their Use for Person Detection / Sanjukta Ghosh." München : Verlag Dr. Hut, 2020. http://d-nb.info/121947665X/34.

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Ramos, Regiane Corrêa de Oliveira. "Entre Oriente e Ocidente: as vozes das travessias em Amitav Ghosh." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-20092011-093307/.

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A literatura indiana de lingua inglesa desenvolveu uma identidade própria desde que o gênero romance foi levado para o subcontinente indiano pelos ingleses no século XIX. O encontro desse romance com as narrativas orais e as tradições locais favoreceu um tratamento diferente do tempo e do espaço nas obras. Esta disertação tem por objetivo analisar dois romances de Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines (1988) e The Hungry Tide (2004), tendo como foco as questões relativas ao tempo e ao espaço, às fronteiras, às grandes e perquenas narrativas e às figuras femininas nelas retratadas. Ao ultrapassar os limites impostos pelos ideais nacionalistas e patriarcais, a mulher dos romances de Amitav Ghosh cruza as fronteiras culturais e sociais, rompendo com os padrões atribuídos a ela. Sua capacidade de transformar um espaço, vista antes como uma tribuição do homem, é folcalizada nas duas obras estudadas. Se Ghosh questiona as grandes narratibas em contraponto com as pequenas, as quais retratam as pessoas excluídas da historiografia oficial, e redefinem o papel da mulher na sociedade que atua, quais são os conflitos gerados por esse contraponto? O ato de cruzar das fronteiras é um espaço simbólico das transformações e rupturas originadas pela ação feminina ou elas não dependem da mulher? Na nossa apreciação, a agência política da mulher propicia tais transformações, devido às rupturas ligadas ao processo do deslocamento, e acontecem em dois níveis: no sujeito, na busca identitária do pertecimento, analisada no primeiro capítulo com o romance The Shadow Lines, e no da prática social pela agência do próprio sujeito, assim como apresentado no romance The Hungry Tide. Um dos tópicos analisados na dissertação é a representação da mulher como agente dessas rupturas por meio dos diferentes recursos textuais usados pelo narrador. Desde uma perspectiva da teoria pós -colonial, destacamos nas duas obras o uso de paralelismos históricos e sociais como via de entendimento dos dramas e lutas pessoais. Tendo a consciência de que todas as narrativas, sejam oficiais ou secundárias, caminham lado a lado estabelecendo relações conflituosas, ressaltando o papel das personagens femininas, cujos recorrentes deslocamentos questionam e problematizam os paradigmas sociais vigentes e constroem espaços simbólicos que se configuram pelo cruzamento de fronteiras geográficas e sócio-culturais.
Indian literature in english has developed its own identity since the genre novel was taken to the Indian subcontinent by the British in the 19th century. The encounter of the novel with the oral narratives and the local traditions made different ways of dealing with space and time in the works possible. The main purpose of this dissertation is to analyse two of Amitav Ghosh\'s novels, The Shadow Lines (1988) and The Hungry Tide (2004), focusing on the questions related to time and space, frontiers, history, and stories and the female characters depicted in them. Crossing the borders imposed by nationalist and patriarcal ideals, woman ideals, womam in Ghosh\'s novels crosses cultural and social frontiers, breaking stereotypes and social patterns given to them. Her ability to transform a space, normally dominated by men, is studied in the two novels. If Ghosh questions history as opposed to stories which depict peopel excluded from national historiography, redefining the woman\'s role in the society where she lives, which are the conflicts that spring from this opposition? Is the act of crossing borders a symbolic space of transformation and ruputures caused by female action, or do these ruptures not depend on the women? According to our view, woman\'s political agency provides these transformations, due to the broken bonds resulting from the process of dislocation, and they happen on two levels: the level of the subject , in her desire for bellonging, analyzed in the first chapter with the novel The Shadow Lines, and the level of social practice by the subject agency, as represented in the novel The Hungry Tide. Onde of the themes analyzed in this dissertation is the representation of woman as the agent of these ruptures through different literary approaches used by the narrator.Following the post-colonialtheory, we highlight in the two novels the use of historical and social parallelisms as a means of understanding the dramas and human predicaments. Being aware that all narratives, primary or secondary, have the same background, establishing conflicting relations, we point out the role of female characters, whose various displacements question and challenge the existing social paradigms and construct symbolic spaces which are built up by crossing geographical, social and cultural frontiers.

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Ghosh, Anirban [Verfasser], and Christopher [Akademischer Betreuer] Balme. "The tropic trapeze : circus in colonial India / Anirban Ghosh ; Betreuer: Christopher Balme." München : Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1124779892/34.

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Chambers, Claire Gail. "The relationship between knowledge and power in the work of Amitav Ghosh." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2003. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/174/.

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To date no single critic has yet published a monograph charting the development of Amitav Ghosh's fiction. Yet Ghosh is one of the most distinctive and influential writers to come out of India since Rushdie and, with five novels already published at the age of forty-seven, his fiction is continuing to develop in ambition and scope. This thesis is an attempt to fill the critical gap by providing a sustained account of Ghosh's writing. I contend that at the heart of his corpus is the argument that knowledge is produced by structures of dominance, particularly the military, economic, and epistemic strategies of colonialism. In the Introduction I set out my methodological parameters, tracing the debate about knowledge and power through Foucault's conceptualization of power as a pervasive set of social relations; Said's recognition that contemporary thought has been crucially shaped by colonialism; and arriving at Bhabha's insight that, colonial models of power and knowledge are ambivalent, split, and self-contradictory. Threaded through this discussion I provide tangible examples, from colonial texts and art, which cast new light on the theories. The Introduction then turns to Ghosh's writing, particularly focusing on the way in which his interrogation of borderlines - between nations, discursive fields, and genres - sends out a challenge to the compartmentalization of much Western thought. I discuss Ghosh's novels in chronological order, suggesting that in each of them he examines the imbrication of at least one specific form of knowledge in colonial power structures. In Chapter One, I discuss representations of science in The Circle of Reason. I argue that science has often been regarded as a legitimate and legitimizing form of knowledge that is disinterested, culturally neutral, benevolent in intention, and allowing access to objective 'truth'. Recent theorists, however, have indicated that science is culturally located, with its own biases and interests. Western science and technology helped both to establish and consolidate power in an active way in colonized countries, and also provided a moral justification for imperial nations to continue their exploitation of Asia and Africa. Yet, through the character of Balaram, Ghosh demonstrates that science was reshaped in the Indian context. Chapter Two focuses on Ghosh's treatment of space in The Shadow Lines. Dramatized here is the notion that space is not simply a given, but is socially constructed and imagined. The novel suggests that the Western obsession with defining nations and firm boundaries on maps has reified a view of space as a territory to be owned, measured and divided. Chapter Three argues that in In an Antique Land, Ghosh turns his attention to prevailing perceptions of time. As well as exploring Ghosh's rewriting of conventional history, this chapter also considers the whole problem of representing the historical or ethnic Other. Ghosh rejects any single historical or anthropological account's claim to provide an authentic and complete version of the Other. He suggests that to provide a non-coercive description of alterity, the text should be multifaceted, imaginative, and open-ended. In Chapter Four, I return to Ghosh's discussion of scientific and technological discourse. The Calcutta Chromosome, I suggest, is another attempt at problematizing the boundaries between science and pseudoscience, and challenging the 'claim to know' (CC, 103) of Western scientists such as Ross. My argument concludes with a summary of the thesis's main concerns and a brief adumbration of the ways in which Ghosh's most recent novel, The Glass Palace, fits into Ghosh's argument about knowledge and power.

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Singh, Nehna Daya. "The postcolonial aesthetics of beauty, nature and form: Reading the glass palace, the hungry tide and the shadow lines by Amitav Ghosh." University of Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7558.

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One can think of an aesthetic as one’s artistic mode and purpose. The aesthetic is differently foregrounded in each of Ghosh’s three selected novels: in the first novel studied, aesthetic concerns are linked with beauty. Female beauty in particular, is the primary aesthetic focus in The Glass Palace since it is beauty that inspires love and appreciation. In the second novel, The Hungry Tide, the aesthetic explores techniques of writing that encompass environmental questions. This novel shows nature as its primary aesthetic since it is through the encounter with nature that its aesthetic is realised and an appreciation for all life forms are established.

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Knowles, Sam Blyth. "Between travel writing and transnational literature : Michael Ondaatje, Vikram Seth, and Amitav Ghosh." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589006.

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In this thesis, I make an in-depth study of the travel-related work of three authors: Michael Ondaatje, Vikram Seth, and Arnitav Ghosh. They have all written travelogues, the importance of which - in terms of the centrality of the idea of travel to their identities and works - has been critically underestimated; my work is intended to redress this imbalance, and to assert the importance of the experiences and consequences of travel to the lives and authorships of these three authors. I explore the importance of travel through a focus on the concept of transnationalism in the work of all three - whether this transnationalism is textual, personal, or geopolitical, it provides a crucial lens through which to view the work of Ondaatje, Seth, and Ghosh. This dual focus on travel and transnationalism is reflected in the structure of the thesis. After a critical introduction, in which I map out the terrain of my argument and accept and reject certain key methodological terms, the work falls into three main, author-focused chapters. In each of these, I start with a biographical analysis of the author and his situation; this leads into an analysis of his principal work of travel writing (Ondaatje's Running in the Family, Seth's From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet, and Ghosh's In an Antique Land); and in the final section of each chapter I study an example of the author's transnationalliterature from the end of the twentieth century (respectively, Anil's Ghost, An Equal Music, and The Glass Palace).

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Lauret, Sabine. "Voix langues et langage : le métissage du texte dans les romans d'Amitav Ghosh." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030101.

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Cette thèse s’intéresse aux romans d’Amitav Ghosh, auteur d’origine bengalie, écrivant en langue anglaise. Elle les met en regard autour des trois notions de voix, langue et langage. Une analyse croisée des romans selon ces trois axes, qui eux-mêmes se chevauchent, permet de définir une écriture du métissage, une écriture de l’entre-deux. Les notions s’articulent autour d’une problématique axée sur la parole et s’appuie sur la théorie bakhtinienne du roman comme espace dialogique. Dans un premier temps, le métissage pose la question de la parenté de l’écriture, et permet d’interroger l’intertextualité qui y est à l’œuvre. Le métissage est mélange et dispersion, et brouille l’origine. Le métissage, que l’on prendrait dans son acception génétique, fonctionne par ailleurs comme un tissage. Ce travail analyse le tressage narratif du texte et met en évidence l’influence de la tradition orale. Le texte se trame sur un métier qui tisse voix et points de vue. Polyphonie et hétéroglossie permettent d’illustrer les stratégies du mélange déployées par l’auteur. Les langues du texte ainsi mises en perspective permettent de définir le métissage comme stratégie de l’imprévisible. Les romans s’hybrident de langues étrangères et permettent de placer le romancier dans le questionnement du roman contemporain sur la traduction
Amitav Ghosh is a Bengali writing in English. This dissertation focuses on his novels from the standpoint of the three following notions: voice, language and speech. An interwoven analysis confronting the novels to these three notions which overlap allows us to define a writing of métissage, a writing of the in-between. Voice and language intersect, and prompts to ground the investigation of the text in a problematic revolving around speech, and based on Bakhtine’s theory of dialogism. First, métissage leads to question the parenthood of Ghosh’s writing and its intertextuality. Métissage means mixing and dispersal, and so, undermines the notion of origin. Then, the biological process of métissage parallels the act of weaving. This analysis shows how the narrative interweaves voices and points of view, and exposes its orality. Polyphony and heteroglossy are the backbones of the narrative. They illustrate the mixing strategies used by the writer. Such an approach of the languages he uses in his novels allows us to define métissage as a strategy of the unpredictable. The novels interweave foreign languages. This shows how Ghosh asserts his voice in the questioning of translation which characterizes the contemporary literary scene

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Ramos, Regiane Corrêa de Oliveira. "Amitav ghoshs Sea of poppies (2008): a web of gender, cultural and mythic relations in the nineteenth-century colonial India." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-09082016-093021/.

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This doctoral dissertation focuses on Amitav Ghoshs Sea of Poppies (2008) to investigate, from a postcolonial perspective, the way in which the writer deconstructs gender in the nineteenth-century India. In Chapter I, I analyze men and women within the Indian familial space in the nineteenth century, demonstrating how both are subjected to the disempowering effects of traditional rituals (such as sati), structures of Brahminical morality and patriarchal violence. The main character pair Deeti and Kalua is an example of how the persons are sexually assaulted (rape) and then silenced by an oppressive system. Chapter II, I examine men and women within the British colonial space, indicating how they are effected by the opium cultivation in the Indian hinterland. The peripheral characters peasants, eurasian and convicts are highlighted to show how they are uprooted from homeland and forced to be taken across the seas by the colonial administration to work as indentured labour. In Chapter III, I investigate the gender roles ascribed to Indians by the British colonizers. The secondary character pair Nob Kissin and Taramony shows how Ghosh deconstructs gender with the use of Indian mythology and storytelling. In the conclusion, I point out how Indian mythology is retrieved as an instrument of resistance.
Esta tese de doutorado tem como objetivo investigar, sob a luz do questionamento póscolonial, como Amitav Ghosh em Sea of Poppies (2008) desconstrói a narrativa colonial sobre gênero na Índia colonial no século XIX. No Capítulo I, analiso homens e mulheres dentro do espaço familiar indiano, demonstrando como ambos estão sujeitos aos efeitos de desempoderamento dos rituais (como sati), da moralidade bramânica e da violência patriarcal. As personagens Deeti e Kalua exemplificam como os sujeitos, vítimas de violência sexual (estupro), são silenciados pelo sistema opressor. No Capítulo II, examino homens e mulheres dentro do espaço colonial britânico, indicando como os indivíduos são afetados pelo cultivo do ópio na Índia. As personagens periféricas camponeses, anglo-indianos e condenados servem de exemplo para destacar como essas pessoas são arrancadas de seu país e forçadas a migrar para as colônias inglesas. No Capítulo III, investigo como os ingleses inferiorizam os indianos. As personagens secundárias Nob Kissin e Taramony mostram como o conceito de gênero é desconstruído através da mitologia. Concluo argumentando que Amitav Ghosh faz uso da mitologia indiana como um instrumento de resistência.

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Ghosh, Tamal [Verfasser], and Burkhard [Akademischer Betreuer] König. "Visible Light-Induced Reductive Photoredox Catalysis in Organic Synthesis / Tamal Ghosh ; Betreuer: Burkhard König." Regensburg : Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1141379554/34.

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Autenrieth, Caroline [Verfasser], and Robin [Akademischer Betreuer] Ghosh. "Untersuchungen zur Assemblierung der photosynthetischen Einheit von Rhodospirillum rubrum / Caroline Autenrieth ; Betreuer: Robin Ghosh." Stuttgart : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Stuttgart, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1124841385/34.

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Ghosh, Ranjan Kumar [Verfasser]. "Towards Transaction Cost Regulation : Insights from the Indian Power Generation Sector / Ranjan Kumar Ghosh." Aachen : Shaker, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1066196745/34.

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Lemos, Gisele Cardoso de. "Recriação conceitual e pós-colonialidade: “ciência” e “religião” nas obras do escritor indiano Amitav Ghosh." Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, 2015. https://repositorio.ufjf.br/jspui/handle/ufjf/181.

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Este trabalho busca analisar as apropriações que o escritor indiano em língua inglesa Amitav Ghosh faz das noções ocidentais de ciência e religião em suas respectivas obras The Calcutta Chromosome e The Circle of Reason, por meio de diálogos, tensões e negociações destas noções com paradigmas filosófico-religiosos de caráter inclusivista e dialógico da civilização indiana, que são matrizes existenciais que perpassam gerações e influenciam inclusive a contemporaneidade da Índia. Para esse fim, esse trabalho privilegia a literatura ficcional como ferramenta crítica para as discussões sobre ciência e religião, uma vez que a ficção propicia a contextualização das coisas/seres, ou seja, a apreensão destes em sua totalidade. Com isso, também buscamos apresentar uma contextualização histórica, linguística, literária, científica e filosófico-religiosa para que sejam mais bem compreendidas algumas escolhas de Amitav Ghosh, a saber: a língua inglesa, o gênero literário romance, as temáticas da medicina tropical e da frenologia e a apropriação da doutrina da transmigração da alma (ātma), a lei do karma e a teoria dos guṇas, discutidas em fontes como os Upaniṣads e o Bhagavad-gītā. Como ferramentas de análise utilizamos, sobretudo, teorias pós-coloniais de subalternidade, tradições unitaristas da filosofia hindu, as obras não-ficcionais do próprio autor e as obras dos mais importantes críticos literários de Ghosh. Com as análises literárias mostramos que Ghosh, além de por em prática a tradição inclusivista indiana, ele demonstra a superioridade do ―domínio espiritual‖ sobre o ―domínio material‖, (conceitos cunhados por Partha Chatterjee) e reabilita a noção de uma racionalidade ocidental excludente tornando-a uma razão iluminadora e libertadora.
This study analyzes the appropriations of Western notions of science and religion by the Indian writer in English Amitav Ghosh, in his respective works The Calcutta Chromosome and The Circle of Reason, through dialogues, tensions, and negotiations between these notions and religious and philosophical paradigms of the Indian civilization, characterized by its inclusive and dialogical characteristics. These paradigms form an existential matrix that crosses generations and even influences contemporary India. To this end, this work focuses on fictional literature as a critical tool for the discussion on science and religion, since fiction provides contextualization for things/beings, that is, the comprehention of these in their entirety. With this, we also seek to provide a historical, linguistic, literary, scientific, philosophical and religious context in order to better understand some of Amitav Ghosh‘s choices, namely the English language, the novel as literary genre, the themes of tropical medicine and phrenology and the appropriation of the doctrine of transmigration of the soul (saṃsāra), the law of karma and the theory of guṇas discussed in sources such as the Upaniṣads and the Bhagavad-gītā. As tools of analysis, we use especially postcolonial theories of subalternity, unitarian traditions of Hindu philosophy, nonfictional works of the author himself and the works of the most important literary critics of Ghosh‘s work. With literary analysis we show that Ghosh, besides using the inclusivist Indian tradition, demonstrates the superiority of ―spiritual domain‖ over the ―material domain‖ (concepts coined by Partha Chatterjee) and also rehabilitates the notion of an exclusionary Western rationality transforming it into an enlightening and liberating reason.

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Ghosh, Arindam [Verfasser]. "Single Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Imaging: Advanced Methods and Applications in Life Sciences / Arindam Ghosh." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1235222748/34.

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Ghosh, Pranay kumar [Verfasser], and Martin [Akademischer Betreuer] Lercher. "Model based process analysis and scale-up in membrane chromatography / Pranay kumar Ghosh. Gutachter: Martin Lercher." Düsseldorf : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1056999691/34.

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van, Bever Donker Vincent. "Ethics and recognition in postcolonial literature : reading Amitav Ghosh, Caryl Phillips, Chimamanda Adichie and Kazuo Ishiguro." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:368d90cc-f186-4e26-a749-64b717758320.

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This thesis undertakes a critical study of ethics in the postcolonial novel. Focusing on four authors, namely Amitav Ghosh, Chimamanda Adichie, Caryl Phillips, and Kazuo Ishiguro, I conduct a comparative analysis of the ethical engagement offered in a selection of their novels. I argue that the recognitions and related emotional responses of characters are integral to the unfolding of these novels’ ethical concerns. The ethics thus explored are often marked by the complexity and impurity characteristic of the tragic – an impurity which is productively thought together with Jacques Derrida’s understanding of “radical evil”. I arrive at this through deploying an approach to ethics in the postcolonial novel that is largely drawn from the work of Martha Nussbaum, David Scott, and Terence Cave. This approach is attentive to both the particular contexts in which the novels’ ethical concerns unfold, as well as the general ethical questions in relation to which these can be understood. Crucial to this is the concept of anagnorisis, that is, the recognition scene. Functioning as both a structural and a thematic element, it serves as a hinge between the general and the specific ethical considerations in a novel. There are three ethical themes that I consider across the thesis: the ethics of remembrance, the human, and religion. The works of these four authors cluster around these concerns to differing degrees and with differing perspectives. What emerges is that while each engagement is focused on the particular details that the novel represents, the range of perspectives can nevertheless be productively read alongside one another as interventions into these general concerns. Following from this I also conclude that as a suitable, if not privileged, form in which to engage questions of the ethical, the postcolonial novel hosts the ethical difficulty that I name as the tragic, and which is characterised by the term radical evil.

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Teal, Scott Allen. "Specters of poverty and sources of hope in the novels of Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ab0fd761-9143-4192-82bf-43336c48f070.

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This thesis attempts to reformulate the concept of hope represented in, and inflected by, the Indian English novel. This comparative literary study focuses primarily on Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry, whose novels offer myriad examples and resultant effects of a reflexive hope. I argue in light of their work to refigure hope in its varied and multiple articulations: positive and negative, for-life and for-death, dependency, waiting, nostalgia, narcissism. All of these, I suggest, manifest in a nominal-messianic hope that formulates a powerful critique of global capital most advantageously constellated in these Indian English novels. I arrive at this from the early writings of Jawaharlal Nehru and his unshakable belief in socialist progress that informs the productive tension within hope that inform the readings of Ghosh’s and Mistry’s novels. Concomitant to this thesis on hope is the recalibration of definitions of poverty to the principles of capabilities that allow for the simultaneous discussion of how the state can shape social opportunities for its citizens. This, I argue, is necessary for the flourishing of more nuanced understanding of hope. Moving away from purely quantitative measurements of poverty to more qualitative capabilities pushes the novel to the foreground of these arguments. Just as Nehru explores his own formulations of hope and hopefulness through the poetry of Matthew Arnold, the Indian English novel, here, is best able to enunciate a reflexive hope that is central to the notion of capabilities. This is why poverty studies in India needs the Indian English novel.

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Ghosh, Pranay Kumar [Verfasser], and Martin [Akademischer Betreuer] Lercher. "Model based process analysis and scale-up in membrane chromatography / Pranay kumar Ghosh. Gutachter: Martin Lercher." Düsseldorf : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 2014. http://d-nb.info/1056999691/34.

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Pereira, Nuno Miguel de Jesus. "Estudo da bioecologia de Rhombacus eucalypti Ghosh & Chakrabarti, um ácaro eriofídeo do eucalipto em Portugal." Master's thesis, ISA-UL, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/12157.

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Mestrado em Engenharia Agronómica - Instituto Superior de Agronomia - UL
O objetivo desta dissertação é contribuir para o conhecimento da bioecologia de Rhombacus eucalypti Ghosh & Chakrabarti, um ácaro eriofídeo do eucalipto, detetado em Portugal em 2005. R. eucalypti apresenta um ciclo de vida curto, desenvolvendo várias gerações que se sobrepõem. Possui um regime alimentar especializado, pois é uma espécie monófaga do género Eucalyptus. Trata-se de um ácaro livre que se desenvolve, preferencialmente, na rebentação, na página inferior e superior das folhas. Ao sugar o conteúdo das células epidérmicas, origina descoloração, necroses, bronzeamento da folhagem e desfolha ao nível da bicada. Em Portugal assume o estatuto de nova praga potencial e encontra-se distribuída em todo o país, predominantemente, nas regiões onde se cultiva o eucalipto, com alguma expressão em Eucalyptus globulus Labill. - espécie mais plantada, desde o litoral ao centronorte, com significado macroeconómico relevante para a indústria papeleira. Dos 67 locais selecionados para o estudo de distribuição geográfica de R. eucalypti, de março de 2007 a março de 2008, foram detetadas populações nos gomos axilares em 21 regiões e, nas folhas, em 20 localidades. As diferenças regionais observadas foram, sobretudo, devidas ao clima, a seca e as temperaturas elevadas no verão fizeram decrescer as populações de R. eucalypti. Nas parcelas de ensaio instaladas em Castelo de Paiva e Pegões, entre fevereiro de 2007 e janeiro de 2008, verificou-se uma diminuição dos níveis populacionais deste eriofídeo, mormente a partir de maio, estendendo-se pelos meses mais quentes e secos. No inverno foram as temperaturas baixas o fator limitante. O ácaro fitoseídeo Typhlodromus transvaalensis (Nesbitt) foi identificado, na região de Valongo do Vouga (Aveiro), como possível predador de R. eucalypti em Portugal. Existem diferenças de suscetibilidade de diferentes Eucalyptus spp. a R. eucalypti, sendo a secção Maidenaria, onde se inclui E. globulus a mais atacada.

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Ghosh, Subhajit [Verfasser], and Markus [Akademischer Betreuer] Hecker. "Role of the focal adhesion protein zyxin in hypertension-induced cardiovascular remodelling / Subhajit Ghosh ; Betreuer: Markus Hecker." Heidelberg : Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1180301854/34.

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Lavery, Charne. "Writing the Indian Ocean in selected fiction by Joseph Conrad, Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Lindsey Collen." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bc0865da-1b17-47c6-8bb8-46a4fe0962bc.

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Tracked and inscribed across the centuries by traders, pilgrims and imperial competitors, the Indian Ocean is written into literature in English by Joseph Conrad, and later by selected novelists from the region. As this thesis suggests, the Indian Ocean is imagined as a space of littoral interconnections, nomadic cosmopolitanisms, ancient networks of trade and contemporary networks of cooperation and crime. This thesis considers selected fiction written in English from or about the Indian Ocean—from the particular culture around its shores, and about the interconnections among its port cities. It focuses on Conrad, alongside Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Lindsey Collen, whose work in many ways captures the geographical scope of the Indian Ocean: India, East Africa and a mid-point, Mauritius. Conrad’s work is examined as a foundational text for writing of the space, while the later writers, in turn, proleptically suggest a rereading of Conrad’s oeuvre through an oceanic lens. Alongside their diverse interests and emphases, the authors considered in this thesis write the Indian Ocean as a space in and through which to represent and interrogate historical gaps, the ethics and aesthetics of heterogeneity, and alternative geographies. The Indian Ocean allows the authors to write with empire at a distance, to subvert Eurocentric narratives and to explore the space as paradigmatic of widely connected human relations. In turn, they provide a longer imaginative history and an alternative cognitive map to imposed imperial and national boundaries. The fiction in this way brings the Indian Ocean into being, not only its borders and networks, but also its vivid, sensuous, storied world. The authors considered invoke and evoke the Indian Ocean as a representational space—producing imaginative depth that feeds into and shapes wider cultural, including historical, figurations.

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Ghosh, Dipan [Verfasser], Michael [Akademischer Betreuer] Sattler, Igor [Gutachter] Tetko, and Michael [Gutachter] Sattler. "Modelling false positives in high throughput assays / Dipan Ghosh ; Gutachter: Igor Tetko, Michael Sattler ; Betreuer: Michael Sattler." München : Universitätsbibliothek der TU München, 2021. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:91-diss-20210728-1595345-1-0.

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Ghosh, Indrajit [Verfasser], Werner [Akademischer Betreuer] Nau, Mathias [Akademischer Betreuer] Winterhalter, and Uwe [Akademischer Betreuer] Pischel. "Bio-Mimetic Supramolecular Host–Guest Interactions / Indrajit Ghosh. Betreuer: Werner Nau. Gutachter: Werner Nau ; Mathias Winterhalter ; Uwe Pischel." Bremen : IRC-Library, Information Resource Center der Jacobs University Bremen, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1087285070/34.

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Ghosh, Subrata [Verfasser], and Hans-Jörg [Akademischer Betreuer] Krüger. "A Mechanistic Insight into the Nickel-Catalyzed Homocoupling Reaction of Terminal Alkynes / Subrata Ghosh ; Betreuer: Hans-Jörg Krüger." Kaiserslautern : Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, 2018. http://d-nb.info/115188104X/34.

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Ghosh, Kumar Jang Bahadur [Verfasser], and F. [Akademischer Betreuer] Klinkhamer. "Chiral gauge theory and nontrivial spacetime topology: Lorentz and CPT violation / Kumar Jang Bahadur Ghosh ; Betreuer: F. Klinkhamer." Karlsruhe : KIT-Bibliothek, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1151938610/34.

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Ghosh, Saikat [Verfasser], and Hans-Günther [Akademischer Betreuer] Roßbach. "Unequal Opportunities in Early Childhood Education in India: A Demand Side Perspective / Saikat Ghosh ; Betreuer: Hans-Günther Roßbach." Bamberg : Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1160938822/34.

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Srinivasan, Ragini Tharoor. "Thinking “What We Are Doing”: V. S. Naipaul and Amitav Ghosh on Being in Diaspora, History, and World." South Asian Literary Association, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626247.

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Ghosh, Ashta [Verfasser]. "Design and synthesis of dithiolene based biomimetic compounds for metal ion sensors and oxo-transfer catalytic applications / Ashta Ghosh." Greifswald : Universitätsbibliothek Greifswald, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1077217846/34.

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Ghosh, Mitrajit [Verfasser]. "Two-photon microscopic imaging in the vasculature – a sub-cellular window for imaging nitric oxide and thrombus / Mitrajit Ghosh." Aachen : Hochschulbibliothek der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule Aachen, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1044570717/34.

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Ghosh, Sanchita [Verfasser], Andreas [Gutachter] Müller, and Triantafyllos [Gutachter] Chavakis. "The regulation of endoplasmic reticulum stress by activated protein C in diabetic nephropathy / Sanchita Ghosh ; Gutachter: Andreas Müller, Triantafyllos Chavakis." Magdeburg : Universitätsbibliothek Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1219966347/34.

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Ghosh, Sanchita [Verfasser], Andreas Gutachter] Müller, and Triantafyllos [Gutachter] [Chavakis. "The regulation of endoplasmic reticulum stress by activated protein C in diabetic nephropathy / Sanchita Ghosh ; Gutachter: Andreas Müller, Triantafyllos Chavakis." Magdeburg : Universitätsbibliothek Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1219966347/34.

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Roy, Sneharika. "The Migrating Epic Muse : conventions, Contraventions, and Complicities in the Transnational Epics of Herman Melville, Derek Walcott, and Amitav Ghosh." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030108.

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Cette thèse propose une lecture croisée des épopées traditionnelles et postcoloniales dans un cadre transculturel. Une analyse comparée de Moby Dick de Herman Melville, Omeros de Derek Walcott et la trilogie de l’Ibis d’Amitav Ghosh nous permet de cerner spécificités de l’épopée moderne postcoloniale. Celle-ci s’inscrit dans la lignée des épopées traditionnelles d’Homère, Virgile, Arioste, Camões et Milton, tout en rivalisant avec elles. Les épopées traditionnelles et modernes ont recours à des conventions qui esthétisent l’expérience collective comme les comparaisons épiques, la généalogie présentée sous forme de prophétie et la mise en abyme ekphrastique. L’épopée traditionnelle met en avant la vision d’une société unifiée grâce à des conjonctions harmonieuses entre le trope et la diégèse, des continuités généalogiques entre l’ancêtre et le descendant ainsi que des associations autoréflexives ekphrastiques entre l’histoire impériale et le texte qui la glorifie. Dans cette perspective, la spécificité de l’épopée postcoloniale semble résider dans l’articulation ambivalente de la condition postcoloniale. Ainsi, chez Melville, Walcott et Ghosh, le style héroï-comique contrebalance les comparaisons épiques opérant des transfigurations héroïques. De même, de nouvelles affiliations hybrides forgées par les personnages coexistent avec des généalogies discontinues, sans en combler toutes les lacunes créées par le déracinement et la violence coloniale. Cette vision équivoque trouve son expression la plus franche dans les séquences ekphrastiques où les textes sont confrontés au choix impossible entre commémoration de l’expérience et regard critique vis-à-vis d’elle
This thesis offers collocational readings of traditional and postcolonial epics in transcultural frameworks. It investigates the specificities of modern postcolonial epic through a comparative analysis of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Derek Walcott’s Omeros, and Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy. It explores how these works emulate, but also rival, the traditional epics of Homer, Virgil, Ariosto, Camões, and Milton. Both traditional and postcolonial epic rely on generic conventions in order to aestheticize collective experience, setting it against the natural world (via epic similes), against history and imperial destiny (via genealogy and prophecy), and against the epic work itself (via ekphrasis). However, traditional epic emphasizes a unified worldview, characterized by harmonious conjunctions between trope and diegesis, genealogical continuities between ancestor and descendant, and self-reflexive ekphrastic associations between imperial history and the epic text commissioned to glorify it. From this perspective, the specificity of postcolonial epic can be formulated in terms of its ambivalent articulation of the postcolonial condition. In the works of Melville, Walcott, and Ghosh, tropes of heroic transfiguration are held in check by the mock-heroic, while empowering self-adopted hybrid affiliations co-exist, but cannot entirely compensate for, discontinuous genealogies marked by displacement, deracination, and colonial violence. This ambivalence finds its most powerful expression in the ekphrastic sequences where the postcolonial texts are most directly confronted with the impossible choice between commemorating experience and being critical of such commemoration

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Ghosh, Suhrid Sundar [Verfasser], Christian [Gutachter] Dahmann, and Pierre [Gutachter] Leopold. "Novel Aspects of Insulin Signaling underlying Growth and Development in Drosophila melanogaster / Suhrid Sundar Ghosh ; Gutachter: Christian Dahmann, Pierre Leopold." Dresden : Technische Universität Dresden, 2021. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-758673.

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Ghosh, Hiren [Verfasser]. "A genome-based approach to study the ecology and epidemiology of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamases (ESBLs) producing E. coli / Hiren Ghosh." Gießen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1186624604/34.

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Ghosh, Shreenanda [Verfasser], Hans-Henning [Gutachter] Klauss, and Nicholas [Gutachter] Curro. "Manipulation of time reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity in Sr₂RuO₄ by uniaxial pressure / Shreenanda Ghosh ; Gutachter: Hans-Henning Klauss, Nicholas Curro." Dresden : Technische Universität Dresden, 2021. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa2-761249.

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Ghosh, Michael [Verfasser]. "Advancing immunopeptidomics : validation of the method, improved epitope prediction, peptide-based HLA typing and discrimination of healthy and malignant tissue / Michael Ghosh." Tübingen : Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1218073012/34.

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Ghosh, Pradeep [Verfasser], Peter [Akademischer Betreuer] Senger, and Joachim [Akademischer Betreuer] Stroth. "Characterization and qualilty assurance of silicon micro-strip sensors using infrared laser for the CBM experiment / Pradeep Ghosh. Gutachter: Peter Senger ; Joachim Stroth." Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1098308271/34.

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Ghosh, Siddharth [Verfasser], Jörg [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gutachter] Enderlein, and Peter Jomo [Gutachter] Walla. "Nanoscale Photonics : From single molecule nanofluidics to light-matter interaction in nanostructures / Siddharth Ghosh ; Gutachter: Jörg Enderlein, Peter Jomo Walla ; Betreuer: Jörg Enderlein." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1138437980/34.

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Bóna-Lovász, Judit [Verfasser], and Robin [Akademischer Betreuer] Ghosh. "Metabolic analysis of carotenoid dynamics and global metabolism in carotenoid mutants of Rhodospirillum rubrum using HPLC/MS methodology / Judit Bóna-Lovász ; Betreuer: Robin Ghosh." Stuttgart : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Stuttgart, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1118370775/34.

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Wang, Guoshu [Verfasser], and Robin [Akademischer Betreuer] Ghosh. "Metabolic engineering of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum to produce industrially interesting plant carotenoids at high level and low cost / Guoshu Wang ; Betreuer: Robin Ghosh." Stuttgart : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Stuttgart, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1123083150/34.

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Ghosh, Aniket [Verfasser], Mikael [Akademischer Betreuer] Simons, Herbert [Akademischer Betreuer] Jäckle, and Stefan [Akademischer Betreuer] Eimer. "Genome-wide RNAi screening reveals glial phosphoethanolamine ceramide is critical for axonal ensheathment / Aniket Ghosh. Gutachter: Mikael Simons ; Herbert Jäckle ; Stefan Eimer. Betreuer: Mikael Simons." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1044305770/34.

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Ghosh, Aniket Verfasser], Mikael [Akademischer Betreuer] [Simons, Herbert [Akademischer Betreuer] Jäckle, and Stefan [Akademischer Betreuer] Eimer. "Genome-wide RNAi screening reveals glial phosphoethanolamine ceramide is critical for axonal ensheathment / Aniket Ghosh. Gutachter: Mikael Simons ; Herbert Jäckle ; Stefan Eimer. Betreuer: Mikael Simons." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-webdoc-3784-4.

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Shaw, Shreya [Verfasser], and Robin [Akademischer Betreuer] Ghosh. "Comparative physiological parameters for the analysis of H2 production by the microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and the photosynthetic purple bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum / Shreya Shaw ; Betreuer: Robin Ghosh." Stuttgart : Universitätsbibliothek der Universität Stuttgart, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1209545098/34.

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Johnson, Eleanore. "Ill at ease in our translated world ecocriticism, language, and the natural environment in the fiction of Michael Ondaatje, Amitav Ghosh, David Malouf and Wilma Stockenström." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002277.

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This thesis explores the thematic desire to establish an ecological human bond with nature in four contemporary novels: The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh, An Imaginary Life by David Malouf, and The Expedition to The Baobab Tree by Wilma Stockenström. These authors share a concern with the influence that language has on human perception, and one of the most significant ways they attempt to connect with the natural world is through somehow escaping, or transcending, what they perceive to be the divisive tendencies of language. They all suggest that human perception is not steered entirely by a disembodied mind, which constructs reality through linguistic and cultural lenses, but is equally influenced by physical circumstances and embodied experiences. They explore the potential of corporeal reciprocity and empathy as that which enables understanding across cultural barriers, and a sense of ecologically intertwined kinship with nature. They all struggle to reconcile their awareness of the potential danger of relating to nature exclusively through language, with a desire to speak for the natural world in literature. I have examined whether they succeed in doing so, or whether they contradict their thematic suspicion of language with their literary medium. I have prioritised a close ecocritical reading of the novels and loosely situated the authors’ approach to nature and language within the broad theoretical frameworks of radical ecology, structuralism and poststructuralism. I suggest that these novels are best analysed in the context of an ecocritical mediation between poststructuralist conceptions of nature as inaccessible cultural construct, and the naïve conception of unmediated, pre-reflective interaction with the natural world. I draw especially on the phenomenological theories of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, whose insistence that perception is always both embodied and culturally mediated truly renders culture and nature irreducible, intertwined categories. By challenging historical dualisms like mind/body and culture/nature, the selected novels suggest a more fluid and discursive understanding of the perceived conflict between language and nature, whilst problematizing the perception of language as merely a cultural artefact. Moreover, they are examples of the kind of literature that has the potential to positively influence our human conception of nature, and adapt us better to our ecological context on a planet struggling for survival.

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Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia. "Constructions of home and nation in the literature of the Indian diaspora, with particular reference to selected works of Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/794/.

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This thesis is an attempt to grapple with the meaning of home and belonging, nation and identity, from the perspective of diaspora narratives. Recent theories of diaspora have produced profound epistemological shifts in the theoretical frameworks and modes of analysis informing intellectual and cultural production. It is within the context of these rearticulated notions of diaspora that I locate my own theoretical perspective in this thesis. My particular objective is to foreground the productive tensions of diaspora which can challenge the reductive processes of homogenization at work in the formation and consolidation of national and cultural identities. What lends particular urgency to my project is the frequency, and violence, with which 'Third World' ideologies of authenticity and cultural hegemony are now being articulated through the rhetoric of nationalism. To this end, I will examine and analyse representations of national and cultural identity in a selection of literary texts by writers of the Indian diaspora. Positioned at the 'in-between' spaces of nations and identities, the product of several interconnecting histories and cultures, writers in diaspora, such as Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Rohinton Mistry reject all appeals to an originary narrative of cultural identity in their attempt to dismantle and reconfigure the dominant narrative of the nation/state. In these texts, home and nation are renarrated, not in terms of a monolithic space, but as a historically constituted terrain, changing and contested, and cultural and national identity as a narrative-in- struggle, and therefore also always 'in process'. For all four novelists under study, diaspora exposes deep fissures in the imagined unity of the nation.

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