Kluwick, Ursula (2020). The Global Deluge: Floods, Diluvian Imagery, and Aquatic Language in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Gun Island. Green letters, 24(1), pp. 64-78. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/14688417.2020.1752516
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This article reappraises the potential of realism with respect to the
representation of climate change through an analysis of the figure
of the flood in what I term Anthropocene water fictions. The article
draws on Amitav Ghosh’s nonfictional The Great Derangement
(2016) together with his novels The Hungry Tide (2004) and Gun
Island (2019), published before and after The Great Derangement,
respectively. I argue that through their development of an aquatic
language and diluvian imagery, Anthropocene water fictions challenge
the limitations of realism that Ghosh identifies in The Great
Derangement.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of English Languages and Literatures |
UniBE Contributor: |
Kluwick, Ursula Maria |
Subjects: |
800 Literature, rhetoric & criticism > 820 English & Old English literatures 400 Language > 420 English & Old English languages |
ISSN: |
2168-1414 |
Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Ursula Maria Kluwick Kälin |
Date Deposited: |
26 Jan 2021 16:20 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:41 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1080/14688417.2020.1752516 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/147726 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/147726 |
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