Overview
- Contributes to the latest debates in postcolonial thought and globalization studies
- Demonstrates how Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy records the changing notions of cosmopolitanism
- Extends neo-Victorian studies to encapsulate a postcolonial maritime studies
Part of the book series: Maritime Literature and Culture (MILAC)
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“What can be more pertinent than an excellent, transoceanic reading of Amitav Ghosh's excellent, transoceanic trilogy? This study is significant not just for its fresh reading of Ghosh's novels but also its critical interventions in such pressing and topical matters as globalization.” (Tabish Khair, Associate Professor of English, Aarhus University, Denmark, and author of The Thing About Thugs (2010))
"Through a series of richly detailed readings, Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy brings timely critical focus to Ghosh’s figuring of the Indian Ocean. Situating the transoceanic spaces and encounters in these works as sites of transformative possibility, Martin-Gonzalez’s work is similarly one of illuminating potentiality in the incisive advances that it generates in dialogues between maritime criticism and postcolonial studies." (Charlotte Mathieson, Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century English Literature, University of Surrey, UK, author of Mobility in the Victorian Novel: Placing the Nation (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and co-editor of the Palgrave series Studies in Mobilities, Literature, Culture with Marian Aguiar and Lynne Pearce)
“This book provides an in-depth analysis of Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy in relation to the Oceanic turn and maritime criticism in literary studies, offering a pertinent intervention in debates on capitalism, globalisation diaspora and migration. Drawing comparisons between the neo-Victorian representation of empire in the novels and contemporary trajectories of globalisation and the inequities inherent in it, this book reveals a new direction in the way in which Ocean worlds need to be considered in relation to postcolonial paradigms.” (Florian Stadtler, Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures, University of Exeter, UK)
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Book Title: Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy
Authors: Juan-José Martín-González
Series Title: Maritime Literature and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77056-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77055-6Published: 24 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77056-3Published: 23 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-5366
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5358
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 167
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Fiction, Literary Theory, Literature, general, Global/International Culture, Imperialism and Colonialism